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LOT 2484
Very Large Megalodon Extinct Giant Shark's Fossil Tooth
PLIOCENE EPOCH, CIRCA 5.6 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 3/4 in. (351 grams, 14.5 cm).
A Carcharocles megalodon shark tooth, with serrations and polished tooth enamel.
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
FootnotesCarcharodon megalodon is regarded as one of the largest and most powerful marine predators in vertebrate history and likely had a profound impact on the structuring of the marine communities. Fossil remains indicate that this giant shark reached a length of more than 16 metres (52 ft) and also affirm that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. Scientists suggest that in life, it looked like a stockier version of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
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LOT 2484
Very Large Megalodon Extinct Giant Shark's Fossil Tooth
Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
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Natural Gold Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising a quantity of small specimens in a display box. 8.67 grams total, 58 x 38 mm including box
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 135 grams, 58 cm
From a UK collection formed in the early 2000s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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. -
Fossil Prionolepis Fish
Cretaceous Period, circa 100 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
Middle-sized fish of slender shape, a pointed snout and a forked caudal fin; traces of its last meal, a whole fish, in its stomach. 552 grams, 22 cm
From Lebanon. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
