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LOT 2020
Natural History - Polished Fossil Nautilus
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 120 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (215 grams, 76 mm).
A polished fossil Cymatoceras sakalavus nautilus. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the jungles of Mahajanga on the North West coast of Madagascar.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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