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LOT 2618
Natural History - Mixed Fossil and Mineral Collection
MAINLY DEVONIAN-CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 395-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 - 6 1/8 in. (1.9 kg total, 2.6-15.7 cm).
Comprising: a polished Goniatite sp. specimens; a polished Orthoceras sp.; a trilobite; a cut half geode specimen; a polished coral head; a rostral spine; a shark vertebra; two cut ammonites; a matrix with fossilised leaf remains; and other specimens. [19, No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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