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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]
Provenance
Found Lyme Regis, Weymouth, UK, and Morocco, North Africa.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
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