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LOT 1943
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.
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