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LOT 2193
Natural History - Large Fossil Shark Vertebra
UPPER PALAEOCENE, THANETIAN STAGE, CIRCA 56 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/8 in. (234 grams, 79 mm).
From Otodus obliquus Agassiz 1843 (mackerel shark). [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Ouled Abdoun Basin Formation (Phosphate beds), Oued Zem, Morocco, North Africa.
From an old Oxfordshire fossil and mineral collection.
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