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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 Goniatite Heart-Shaped Trinket Tray
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
The fossiliferous matrix with convex body displaying several fossils with a raised pedestal at the top, set with a single Goniatite sp. fossil. 524 grams, 16.5 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Fossil Perisphinctes Ammonite
Jurassic Period, 174-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Displaying clear ribbing to the outer shell. 127 grams, 74 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Enormous Two Metre Section of Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Spine
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
The spine section comprising sixteen large, perfectly lined dorsal vertebrae with transverse processes with another at each end lying flat, various other vertebrae and rib sections resting next to the spine; on a sedimentary matrix wrapped in a plaster field jacket. 60 kg, 1.79 m
From 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.
