Natural History - Large Fossil Clavilithes Gastropod

EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 40 MILLION YEARS B.P.

5 1/4 in. (263 grams, 13.5 cm).

Clavilithes macrospira showing a good structure of the shell; supplied in a cardboard specimen tray. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.

CONDITION

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LOT 1943