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LOT 2505
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Column
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 400 MILLION YEARS B.P.
9 1/2 in. (1.48 kg, 24.2 cm).
Comprising variously sized polished 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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Blue Calcite Large Mineral Specimen Group [13]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising thirteen large chunks with attractive lustre. 1.87 kg total, 60-86 mm
From Mexico. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Declivolthus Fossil Trilobite Group
Ordovician Period, circa 485-444 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising a positive and a negative impression of Declivolithus sp. 148 grams total, 45-62 mm
From Morocco, North Africa. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 220 grams, 62 cm
Ex West country, UK, collection, 2000s.
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 couldn't get to.
