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LOT 2652
Polished Fossil Brachiopod
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 3/8 in. (653 grams, 86 mm).
A large specimen of possibly Brachiopoda articulata. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
Acquire Sheringham, UK, in 1999.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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