SF019 - NATURAL DOUBLE ASSOCIATION OF TWO DIFFERENT SPECIES OF DEVONIAN STARFISH FOSSILS FROM BUNDENBACH

Product Description

ITEM # 

SF019

ID

Taeniaster beneckei, Ophiurina lymani

FOUND

Hunsruck Shale - Bundenbach, Germany

AGE

LOWER DEVONIAN (EMSIAN):  390 million years ago

SIZE

9.2" x 9" overall, starfish are 1.15" and .5" across

CONDITION

NO REPAIR, RESTORATION OR ENHANCEMENT 

NOTE

FANTASTIC EXAMPLE 
COMPLETE AND WITH FULL DETAIL

INCLUDES STAND - Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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This is an exquisite and RARE natural double starfish fossil from the famous Bundenbach Slates of Germany.  Two different species met their deaths, side-by-side.  On the upper right is Ophiurina lymani and on the lower left, is the larger Taeniaster beneckei.  This world-renowned fossil-bearing site is known for a rare deposit of marine invertebrate fossils that have been preserved in pyrite with extraordinary detail including a very rare occurrence of fossilized soft tissue.  This can be seen in this particular fossil we offer here.  Soft tissue preservation is extremely rare in the fossil record and it provides us a unique opportunity to view the prehistoric creature in the form that it was in when alive. 

The plate is without any repair and it, as well as the fossils, are 100% natural and authentic.  Both prehistoric starfish fossils show incredible detail of a very old form of starfish from a time when the seas were swarming with bizarre marine life such as trilobites and crinoids.  NO REPAIR, RESTORATION OR ENHANCEMENT.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

The Hunsruck Slates of Bundenbach, Germany are now protected and have been closed to collecting for quite some time.  The only way to acquire a fossil from this famous location is to find an old collection piece for sale.  The quarries were once worked for slate roofing tiles, with the slate being cut and split by manual labor which permitted the occasional discovery by quarry workers of fossils in the slate tiles.  When a fossil was discovered, they were usually set aside for collectors.  Later technological advances in fossil preparation utilized various methods to further remove the matrix around the fossil without damaging the specimen thereby revealing incredible preservation rarely seen in preserved remains.  The last mines were abandoned in the 1960's.