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LOT 2809
Natural History - Polished Fossil Goniatite Group
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 1/2 in. (858 grams total, 13.9 cm).
Comprising two polished, dome-shaped masses, each with a central Goniatite sp. specimen. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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