Objects: 55 fossils from the secondary and tertiary eras including fish prints, …

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Objects: 55 fossils from the secondary and tertiary eras including fish prints, crinoids, leaves... + fossil slab/trace/tridactyl footprint from Grallator (Vendée)

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Objects: 55 fossils from the secondary and tertiary eras inc

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Estim. 120 - 200 EUR

Fossil collection. Beautiful lot of five starfish fossils. Petraster sp. Protopaleaster sp. 450 million years old. L. plates max 14cm. L. fossils max 4cm. Fossilization in fine detail for these rare and ancient Echinoderms. A glimpse into the seabed of the primary era. Ordovician. Erfoud, Morocco.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Collectable fossils. Large polished nautilus. 110 million years old. L. 12.7cm. 1.2kg. A rare survivor of the great Tertiary Cretaceous extinction. Albian, Lower Cretaceous. Mahajunga, Madagascar.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Natural History - Large Fossil Diplomystus Fish Plate. Eocene Period, 58-36 million years B.P. Diplomystus sp. fossil fish on a matrix slab showing good detail to the spine and ribs. 9.4 kg, 46 x 61.5 cm (18 1/8 x 24 1/4 in.). From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Natural History - Complete Ice Age Juvenile Woolly Mammoth Tusk. Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P. A right-side 'fossil' tusk of the extinct Mammuthus Primigenius; ivory yellow-brown in colour and finely preserved with the typically marked curvature of this species; with custom-made display stand. See Lister & Bahn, Mammoths, for general information. 2.29 kg total, 54 cm wide including stand (21 1/2 in.). Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man; Siberia is famed for discoveries of frozen mammoth carcasses (see 'Dima' and 'Lyuba' for examples) and for the hut circles where mammoth bones and tusks were used as building materials; tusks have been traded for at least 2,000 years and in modern times, Siberian natives still hunt for them and use the fossil ivory as raw material. From the Siberian Tundra. From the private collection of Mr J S, Northamptonshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.

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