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LOT 2689
Polished Orthoceras Fossil Bookends
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 400 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 5/8 in. (2.16 kg total, 12 cm each).
Formed of fossiliferous stone with Orthoceras sp. specimens. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Morocco, North Africa.
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Fossil Phacops Trilobite on Matrix
Devonian Period, circa 444-439 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
The aquatic arthropod showing good detail to the carapace, resting on an irregular matrix. 211 grams, 77 mm
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
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Polished Fossil Goniatite Ammonite Lidded Trinket Box
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
A square box carved from fossiliferous stone, the lid set with a larger Goniatite sp. specimen. 548 grams, 91 x 91 mm
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 134 grams, 58 cm
London, 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 were unable to reach.
