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LOT 2690
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Plate
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 400 MILLION YEARS B.P.
9 1/2 in. (1.68 kg, 24.1 cm).
Comprising six bullet-shaped Orthoceras sp. specimens on a textured matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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