Natural History - Historic Fossil 'Starfish'

Jurassic Period, 203-145 years BP. A fossil of the 'brittle star' Geocoma elegans from Ardiche, France, in old white card tray with A. B. Cotterill Collection, Wollaton, Nottingham, UK, label. See Geo

Ordovician Period, 485-444 million years B.P. A fossil Petraster sp. starfish in matrix. 138 grams, 69 mm (2 3/4 in.). From Katian Stage, Tioririne Formation, El Kaid Rami, Morocco, North Africa.Acqui

Ordovician Period, 450 million years BP. A mortality plate displaying five large brittlestars, Ophiura sp. showing much detail. 1.9 kg, 28cm (11"). Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman; formerly in an

Ordovician Period, 485-444 million years BP. A mortality plate displaying two large brittlestars, Ophiura sp. from the Kataoua formation in Blekus, Morocco. 860 grams, 18x17cm (7 x 6 3/4"). From an ol

Ordovician Period, 450 million years BP. A mortality plate displaying four large brittlestars, Ophiura sp. showing much detail. 1.7 kg, 29.5cm (11 1/2"). Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman; formerly

Ordovician-Silurian, 488-415 million years BP. A group consisting of one Silurian and two Ordovician trilobites, two in old white card trays with A.B. Cotterill Collection, Wollaton, Nottingham, UK, l

Ordovician Period, 485-444 million years B.P. A matrix containing a fossil starfish, petraster and edrioasteroids Spinadiscus lefebvrei. 283 grams, 96 mm (3 3/4 in.). From the Tioririne Formation, El

Mid-Triassic Period, 240 million years BP. A fossil of Pecten sp. on a matrix of micaceous, fine-grained sandstone, from Yorkshire, with old adhesive label to back reading: 'Pecten, Robin Hood Bay, Yo

Ordovician-Permian, 488-252 million years BP. A group of eight brachiopods, including one spirifer and seven terebratulids, in old white card trays with A.B. Cotterill Collection, Wollaton, Nottingham

Carboniferous-Jurassic, 359-145 million years BP. A group of seven brachiopod specimens, including four spirifers (two in matrix), and three terebratulids, in old white and brown card trays with A.B.

Carboniferous-Cretaceous Period, 359-66 million years BP. A group of six fossils of different cllasses and periods, including four bivalves, a goniatite, and an ammonite, five in old white card trays

Carboniferous Period 359-299 million years BP. A group of three large diameter (up to 33mm) crinoid stems, in white card trays with A.B. Cotterill Collection, Wollaton, Nottingham, UK, labels. 271 gra

Carboniferous Period 359-299 million years BP. A group of two limestone sea-floor specimens with numerous crinoid stem segments and bryozoans from Barry, Glamorganshire, in white card trays with adhes

Silurian Period, 444-415 million years BP. A group of seven corals from Salop, UK, in old white card tray with A.B. Cotterill Collection, Wollaton, Nottingham, UK, label. 40 grams total, 23-32mm (3/4-

Middle Jurassic, Inferior Oolite, Aalenian Stage, 170 million years BP. A group of two fossil ammonites on matrix, one Graphoceras sp. and the other possibly Leioceras sp., in old white card trays, on

Carboniferous Period, 359-299 million years BP. A group of two crinoid calicies of the species Amphorocrinas gigas with well-preserved plate development and the stubs of their arms and stems, in white

Eocene Period, 50 million years BP. A historic group of two fossil molluscs and one fossil gastropod from the Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd reference collection, with old labels reading: '79, Barton Clay

Permian Period, 285 million years BP. A complete preserved Mesosaurus brasiliensis skeleton in limestone; from the Irati-Formation, Parana Delta, Brazil. 4.4 kg, 48cm x 33cm (19 x 13"). From an old Br

Late Permian-Early Triassic Period, circa 252-250 million years B.P. In an irregular matrix. 12.2 kg, 43 cm (17 in.). From Madagascar. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.This lot has been checked a

Devensian Period, 110,000-12,000 years B.P. Including the claws and bones, held together by an internal metal frame. 608 grams, 33 cm (13 in.). Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years B.P. Possibly Pseudostacus hakeliensis, together with a fossil fish, possibly Rhinobatos sp., both showing some good detail. 4.5 kg, 41 cm (16 1/8 in.). From Le

Cretaceous Period, c.100 million years BP. A near complete fossil Barrasaurus marine 'dinosaur' skeleton in a matrix. 372 grams, 17.5cm (7"). From an East Anglia, UK, collection; from China.

Triassic Period, 250-200 million years BP. A complete fossil Keichousaurus hui marine 'dinosaur' skeleton on matrix. 1.5 kg, 27.3cm (10 3/4"). From a Lincoln palaeontological collection; acquired 1970

Late Cretaceous Period, circa 100-66 million years B.P.. A near complete Charonosaurus sp. hadrosaur egg, retaining the leathery surface, and possibly showing the internal remains at one corner. 1.73