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LOT 2342
Natural History - Sand Shark Tooth Display
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 70-50 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3/4 - 1 in. (5 1/8 in.) (3.88 grams total, 20-25 mm (39 grams total, 13 cm high including case)).
Comprising six extinct sand shark teeth; supplied in a custom display frame. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Norfolk, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Natural History - Large British Woolly Rhinoceros Fossil Leg Bone Group
Pleistocene Period, 2.58 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising three leg bones (radius, tibia) from Coelodonta antiquitatis. 5.65 kg total, 37-40 cm
Found Oxfordshire, UK, clay pits. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
The woolly rhinoceros inhabited northern Eurasia and mostly fed on grasses and sedges that grew in the mammoth steppe. An adult typically stood at 1.45-1.6 metres high with a large front horn that would have measured 1-1.35 metres long. -
Natural History - Fossil Morroccanites Trilobite
Devonian Period, circa 380 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
A Morocconites malladoides specimen displaying the characteristic upcurved, frontal medial spine. 152 grams, 69 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Natural History - British Bison Fossil Leg Bone Group
Pleistocene Period, 2.58 million-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Comprising five leg bones, four with inked date. 2.05 kg total, 19-25.5 cm
Found Oxfordshire, UK, clay pits. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.