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LOT 0396
Natural History - Massive Crinoid Plate
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
68 1/8 in. (90.5 kg, 1.73 m).
An impressive display containing multiple intact Scyphocrinus elegans specimens showing detailed crowns and stalks.
ProvenanceFrom Erfoud, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Crinoids are filter feeding sea animals, which attach themselves to the bottom of the ocean with a stalk. They are echinoderms related to starfish, sea urchins, and brittle stars. Today they are referred to as ‘Sea Lilies’, and are virtually identical to their fossil relatives, making them living fossils.
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Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth and Fish Bones
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
The matrix containing a single Mosasaur prognathodon tooth and several fossilised fish bones. 139 grams, 83 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Fossil Sarocrinus Varsovensis Crinoid on Matrix
Carboniferous Period, circa 358-298 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
A Sarocrinus varsovensis showing the crown with good detail. 59 grams, 65 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Fossil Cave Lion Upper Jaw
Middle-Late Pleistocene Period, circa 40,000-25,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
From the left side of Panthera spelaea lower jaw, displaying a large canine and three other teeth. 311 grams, 19.5 cm
From the private collection of a London gentleman formed since 2003.
Panthera spelaea is also known as the steppe lion or cave lion, became extinct about 13,000 years ago. Based on contemporary cave drawings, this prominent member of the mammoth steppe fauna, probably only had a very small mane.
