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LOT 2353
Polished Fossil Goniatite and Orthoceras Display
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 400 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 1/8 in. (794 grams, 15.5 cm).
A display set with a polished Goniatite sp. and an Orthoceras sp. specimens on a textured freestanding matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 200 grams, 56 cm
Ex West country, UK, collection, 1990s onwards.
The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers were unable to reach. -
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Composite Fossil Jaw Fragment
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Comprising four Mosasaur Prognathodon teeth set in a jaw fragment with other bone fragments. 128 grams, 13.1 cm
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with an elongated body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish. -
Cut and Polished Agate Display Section Group [2]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising two irregular sections, one dark green with red and grey banding, one pale purple with light green and red banding. 3.35 kg total, 16.5-22 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.