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LOT 2259
Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Bone Fragment on Stand
DEVENSIAN PERIOD, 110,000-12,000 YEARS B.P.
9 1/2 in. (1.22 kg total, 24 cm high including stand).
Comprising a section of Mammuthus primigenius humerus bone; mounted on a custom-made display stand with an information ticket. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the North Sea.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Natural History - Fossil Megalodon Giant Shark Tooth
Pliocene Period, circa 5.2-2.5 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
A Carcharocles megalodon tooth displaying good polished enamel. 150 grams, 10 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Carcharocles megalodon is regarded as one of the largest and most powerful marine predators in vertebrate history and likely had a profound impact on structuring of the marine communities. Fossil remains indicate that this giant shark reached a length of more than 16 metres (52 ft) and also affirm that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. Scientists suggest that in life it looked like a stockier version of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. -
Natural History - 'North Sea' Fossil Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Showing wear in life to biting surfaces, from Mammuthus primigenius. 2.23 kg, 19 cm
Dredged from the North Sea, probably from Brown Bank, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK. Previously acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man. The North Sea basin is a drowned landscape, flooded after the end of the last Ice Age. Fishing trawlers occasionally bring up bones and relics from when the area was inhabited as dry land. -
Natural History - Fossil Otodus Shark Tooth Display
Eocene Period, circa 56-33 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising a large Otodus obliquus tooth; supplied in a display frame. 28.3 grams, 60 mm (64 grams total, 13 cm high including case)
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
