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LOT 2519
Natural History - Sporadoceras Goniatite Display
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 in. (299 grams, 10.3 cm).
Free-standing and polished through the shell to reveal the calcite preserved inside, showing the dividing gas chambers. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
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