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LOT 2160
Natural History - Large Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth Plate
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
18 3/4 in. (9.75 kg, 47.5 cm).
Comprising fourteen teeth, one with only a tip visible, and various jaw fragments set on a sedimentary matrix wrapped in a plaster field jacket.
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.
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LOT 2160
Natural History - Large Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth Plate
Estimate £350 - 450€410 - 520 (for guidance only)$470 - 610 (for guidance only)
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Natural History - Fossil Spinosaurus Dinosaur Fossil Tooth Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 125-113 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising three teeth from Spinosaurs maroccanus. 65 grams total, 52-60 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Polished Fossil Chalice
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Footed chalice with a wide bowl; fossil inclusions. 309 grams, 10.9 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Natural History - Mixed Fossil Collection
Mainly Devonian Period, 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
An interesting group of fossils comprising: three polished heart-shaped coral fossils and one polished to a round shape; a pair of polished goniatites with applied suspension loops; various ammonites, some polished; a polished orthoceras; various trilobite fossils, and others. 1.3 kg total, 1.7-12.6 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
