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LOT 2370
Natural History - Polished Fossil Ichthyosaurus Vertical Vertebra Section
JURASSIC PERIOD, 180 MILLION YEARS B.P.
7 1/4 in. (624 grams, 18.4 cm).
Displaying one polished face containing vertebra section. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK.
Ex UK collection.
Ichthyosaurs (from the Greek, meaning 'fish lizard') are extinct marine reptiles which resembled modern dolphins in appearance; the first complete UK specimen was found by the famous fossil hunter Mary Anning (1799-1847 AD) when she was just 12 years of age; the fossil she found is now in the Natural History Museum, London.
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LOT 2370
Natural History - Polished Fossil Ichthyosaurus Vertical Vertebra Section
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
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Natural History - Mastodon Fossil Tusk Carving
Pliocene Period, 5.2-2.5 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Featuring a later carved stylised face in relief. 121 grams, 83 mm
Ex private collection of a Shropshire, UK, gentleman, 1990s. -
Natural History - Dolphin Vertebra Group
Miocene Age, circa 15 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising four Delphinus sp. vertebrae. 352 grams total, 56-91 mm
From North Carolina, U.S.A. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection. -
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Leg Bone Section
Cretaceous Period, 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
From the front leg of Deltadromeus agilis. 405 grams, 18 cm
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
