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LOT 2819
Worked Fossilised Megalodon Tooth
EARLY PLIOCENE, CIRCA 5-2 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 1/2 in. (293 grams, 11.5 cm).
Showing signs of being polished and with the tip cut at an angle, possibly used as a tool. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceRecovered from the Hawthorn Formation, Broad River, Beaufort County, South Carolina.
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From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Keichousaurus was a late Triassic marine reptile, a member of the Pleurosaur family, which went extinct 250 million years ago during the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event. They were specialised fish eaters, and were highly unusual amongst marine reptiles in that they gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs. -
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 200 grams, 60 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.
