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LOT 2297
Natural History - Megalodon Giant Shark Fossil Tooth
PLIOCENE PERIOD, 5.2-2.5 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 5/8 in. (98 grams, 92 mm).
A large Carcharocles megalodon tooth with remaining serrations and tooth enamel. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired UK market.
Property of a Kent collector.
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Natural History - Extinct Fossil Shark and Other Tooth Collection
Cretaceous-Eocene Period, 70-50 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Comprising specimens of different sizes, including examples retaining some or most of the root, enamel and/or serration. 940 grams total, 7-27 mm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection. -
Natural History - Fossil Euthriofusus Gastropod
Eocene Period, circa 40 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Well preserved fossil Euthriofusus Regularis, gastropod shell. 12.8 grams, 55 mm
From the Barton Beds, Hampshire, UK, 1960. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by an explanatory note. -
Natural History - Mosasaur Fossil Bone and Tooth Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising three sandstone matrices with Mosasaur Prognathodon sp. teeth and bone fragments, including fossil fish and other remains. 419 grams total, 64-92 mm
From the phosphate mine region, Khouribga, Morocco, North Africa. Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young. The Mosasaur is an extinct, large dinosaur-like marine reptile with a snake-like body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish.
