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LOT 2851
Natural History - 'Onchosaur' Fossil Rostral Spine Group
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 100-66 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 7/8 - 2 1/8 in. (21 grams total, 47-53 mm).
Comprising three large fossil Onchopristus numidus sawfish rostral teeth. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom in the phosphate mine region, Khouribga, Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2851
Natural History - 'Onchosaur' Fossil Rostral Spine Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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Natural History - Woolly Rhinoceros Upper Rear Tooth
Ice Age, 50,000-20,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
With stub roots. 180 grams, 74 mm
From Yakutsk, Permafrost Region, Siberia. Acquired from an old Dutch collection. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: gypsum, no collection number; garnet schist, collection number 191; red granite, collection number 399; Blue John from Derbyshire, England, collection number 484, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; a cut and polished slice of septarian nodule from USA, collection number 117; limestone from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 510; kermesite with stibnite from Pezinok, Czechoslovakia, collection number 601; mica, collection number 366; pyrite and chlorite in matrix slate from Devon, England, collection number 46. 1.28 kg total, 5.1-12.1 cm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Large Polished Fossil Ammonite Platter
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
A circular composite plate of overlapping Cleoniceras sp. ammonites. 755 grams, 24.5 cm
From Madagascar. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
