AMX214 - GOLD JURASSIC AMMONITES AND CLAMS ON MASS EXTINCTION FOSSIL SLAB OF BLACK SHALE

Product Description

ITEM # 

AMX214

ID

Dactylioceras and bivalves

FOUND

Holzmaden Black Shale Formation (Lias Epsilon) - Stuttgart, Germany

AGE

JURASSIC:  200 million years ago

SIZE

19.25" x 19" overall

CONDITION

100% GENUINE - NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION 

NOTE

STUNNING DISPLAY FOSSIL OF GOLD JURASSIC 
AMMONITES ON BLACK SHALE!

INCLUDES STAND - Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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From the world-renown Black Jurassic oil-bearing shale of Holzmaden, Germany comes this exquisitely preserved slab filled with Dactylioceras and Harpoceras ammonites.  Specimens like this are seldom discovered at this highly unique formation famous for producing some of the world's finest Jurassic marine life fossils.  Modern quarry efforts have failed to produce many specimens like this that were once found in greater frequency years ago.  If you wish to accent a room with one of nature's most beautiful prehistoric masterpieces, then this fossil would really set off any interior. 

This particular specimen displays a completely dense layer of fossil ammonites.  Literally, a bed of creatures that died, layer upon layer of themselves.  It is similar to seeing the sky at night in a desert, packed full of stars - there are ammonites in between ammonites such that the entire surface is so densely covered.  Such concentration of fossil creatures indicates a catastrophic event that resulted in the death of a large number of ammonites together and at once.  The ammonites possess exquisite chamber ridge detail much better than the above photos indicate.

Some of the largest dinosaurs that ever walked the earth were in existence when this Lytoceras ammonite swam in the ancient seas alongside massive plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs!