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THB2 Fossilized Urchins / Sand Dollar, Encope & Clypeaster
Lot 23
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Jul 13, 2021
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Bidsquare : Fauna, Flora, Stones & Bones
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Join us for a very special summer auction featuring fabulous fossils, rocks, and minerals, plus art depicting flora and fauna from antiquity to present day. This is one you won't want to miss! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Join us for a very special summer auction featuring fabulous fossils, rocks, and minerals, plus art depicting flora and fauna from antiquity to present day. This is one you won't want to miss! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Ancient Seas, Mexico, Baja, Pliocene period, ca. 7 million years ago; Western Europe, Italy, Tropea, Miocene period, 23 to 5 million years ago. A fine pair of fossilized echinoderms, prehistoric sea urchins. The first is an extinct species of sand dollar known as Encope californicus; a flattened disc shape with a lovely honey brown and beige hue. The five-petal patterning on the slightly convex top is wonderfully preserved and polished. Sand dollars are flat sea urchins that burrow into the sea floor and have velvety spines that decay once the creature dies, leaving a smooth surface behind. The larger urchin is Clypeaster campanulatus, with a high domed top, but also exhibits the iconic five-petal structure radiating outward. The underside has a small cavity at the center which functioned as the mouth for the urchin. Size of larger: 4.75" Diameter x 1.75" W (12.1 cm x 4.4 cm); smaller: 3.375" Diameter (8.6 cm)
Display stands shown in photos are for photography purposes only.
Provenance: ex-Stein collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, acquired prior to 2010
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm.
#164107Chip and small cavity on upper face of Encope sand dollar. Convex surface is smooth and polished. Minor chips to peripheries. Clypeaster has a stable fissure on the domed face, and small chip in this area. Underside has traces of a barnacle. Otherwise both intact and very good.Condition
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