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LOT 1768
Natural History - Two Fossil Trilobites on a Matrix
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 in. (244 grams, 10.1 cm).
Comprising two specimens on a matrix: Drotops megalomanicus and Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) gibbus. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Atlas Mountains, Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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