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LOT 2336
Natural History - Megalodon Giant Shark Fossil Tooth
MIOCENE-PLIOCENE PERIOD, 23-3.5 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/8 in. (56.9 grams, 81 mm).
With serrations, from Carcharocles megalodon. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Florida, USA.
Collected 1930-1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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