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LOT 2381
Natural History - Polished Fossil Orthoceras Jewellery Box
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 3/8 in. (787 grams, 11 cm diameter).
A round lidded jewellery or trinket box, polished and cut from a single block containing multiple Orthoceras sp. and other fossil specimens. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2381
Natural History - Polished Fossil Orthoceras Jewellery Box
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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Natural History - Mixed British Fossils
Carboniferous-Cretaceous Period, circa 305-113 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising a mixed group of nine fossils in five card trays, different species and types including: Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and whale bone from Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. 981 grams total, 40-92 mm
From various sites in the UK. From a Norfolk, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Green River Fossil Fish Group
Eocene Period, circa 56-33 million years B.PSold for (Inc. bp): £39
Two Green River fish specimens Diplomystus sp. in a matrix. 437 grams, 12.5 x 14.2 cm
From Wyoming (Green River Formation), USA. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
In southwest Wyoming (and parts of Colorado and Utah) in the Green River Formation are found some of the world's most outstanding specimens of fossil fish. The Green River system was composed of three lakes: Lake Ulinta, Lake Gosiute and Fossil Lake. These Eocene lakes lay in a series of intermountain basins formed by geological events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains during the early Tertiary time. The climate was much different from the desert-like climate of this area today. Both the fauna (crocodiles, alligators, boa constrictors and some subtropical fish families) and the flora (such as large palm trees) indicate a climate much like that found along the Gulf Coast today. Large amounts of ash found in the sediments indicate that volcanoes were particularly active at this time. -
Natural History - British Xiphoceras Fossil Ammonite
Jurassic Period, circa 190 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising a large Xipheroceras drudrieseri on an irregular matrix. 206 grams, 62 mm
Found Charmouth, Dorset, England.
