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LOT 2392
Natural History - Mastodon Bone Face Carving
PLIOCENE PERIOD, 5.2-2.5 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/8 in. (112 grams, 80 mm).
Displaying a later carved stylised face with exaggerated facial detailing. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.
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Natural History - Large Quartz Rock Crystal Point Group [6]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising six clear prismatic points. 1.03 kg total, 9-10 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Fossil Starfish Group
Ordovician Period, circa 485-444 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising four Petraster sp. specimens on matrices. 716 grams total, 7-12 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Fossil Deltadromeus Theropod Dinosaur Vertebra
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
A vertebra with partial neural arch from the dinosaur Deltadromeus agilis. 364 grams, 12.2 cm
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus meaning 'delta runner' has extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur is an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
