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LOT 2339
Natural History - 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Collection
JURASSIC TO CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 180-60 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 1/4 - 4 in. (884 grams total, 3-10.1 cm).
Comprising: a mosasaur tooth with an information card; a spinosaurus tooth with an information label; a fish vertebra with an information label; an ichthyosaur vertebra from Weymouth, Dorset; a plesiosaur vertebra and a partial paddle bone from Lyme Regis. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Lyme Regis, Weymouth, UK, and Morocco, North Africa.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
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Natural History - Fossil Flexicalymene Trilobite Nodule
Ordovician Period, 485-443 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
An opened nodule containing a partial Flexicalymene specimen. 180 grams total, 62-63 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Insect in Polished Amber
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
A polished irregular piece of amber with a large insect inclusion. 1.2 grams, 23 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Mixed Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: yellow sulphur; a cut malachite specimen; smoky quartz point; vanadinite in a specimen box; agate slice; several cut geodes, and others. 2.9 kg total, 18-95 mm
Acquired from various sources within the UK. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.