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LOT 2466
Natural History - Large Polished Fossil Orthoceras Tower
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 370 MILLION YEARS B.P.
18 1/2 in. (8.35 kg, 47 cm high).
Comprising a number of vertical Orthoceras sp. specimens on a freestanding matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2466
Natural History - Large Polished Fossil Orthoceras Tower
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
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Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Devensian Period, 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Restrung using polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 190 grams, 66 cm long
Private UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher. -
Natural History - Fossil Mesacristata Trilobite
Devonian Period, 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Hollardops mesacristata trilobite on a matrix. 121 grams, 77 mm
From the Atlas Mountains, Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco. From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection. -
Natural History - Fossil 'African T-rex' Dinosaur Tooth
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-93 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
From Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. 19.8 grams, 62 mm
From the Tegana formation of the Sahara Desert, Morocco. Acquired during the 1980s. From an old Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
The Carcharodontosaurus saharicus was one of the largest predators (larger than its distant North American T-Rex cousin) of all time and is also related to Allosaurus and the South American Giganotosaurus.
