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LOT 2337
Natural History - Mosasaur Jaw on Composite Matrix
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
7 1/2 in. (1.17 kg, 19 cm).
Comprising a pair of jaw fragments with teeth set on a composite matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Natural History - British Wild Boar and Other Fossil Bone Group
Late Pleistocene Period, 1.5 million-7,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Including wild boar, deer, and others, comprising: neck vertebrae, collar bone, ball-shaped finial of the bone, etc. 1.54 kg total, 6.2-23 cm
Found Colwick Park, Nottinghamshire, UK. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985. -
Natural History - Fossil Petraster Starfish on Matrix
Ordovician Period, circa 485-444 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Showing a complete and a partial Petraster sp. specimen; repaired. 711 grams, 15.5 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Fossil Rastellum Bivalve
Jurassic Period, circa 155 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
A Rastellum carinatum fossil bivalve. 121 grams, 66 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Rastellum carinatum specimens have wide, angled ribs that have led to it being called the 'denture clam'; the zig-zag join between the two shells stopped coarse dirt and debris entering the shell and damaging its soft body. Like modern oysters, it lived in shallow coastal waters including the interstitial zone and fed on food particles that it filtered out of the sea water.
