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LOT 2538
Natural History - Large Fossil Shark Vertebra
UPPER PALAEOCENE, THANETIAN STAGE, CIRCA 56 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (174 grams, 77 mm).
From Otodus obliquus Agassiz 1843 (mackerel shark). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Ouled Abdoun Basin Formation (Phosphate beds), Oued Zem, Morocco, North Africa.
From an old Oxfordshire fossil and mineral collection.
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