Europe, Stuttgart, Germany, Holzmaden Black Shale, Jurassic Period, ca. 200 million years ago. From the world-renowned Black Jurassic oil-bearing shale of Holzmaden, Germany comes this exquisitely preserved slab filled with numerous small ammonites and bivalves, and featuring a giant Harpoceras ammonite preserved in a thick, lustrous golden pyrite. Specimens like this are seldom discovered at this highly unique formation famous for producing some of the world's finest Jurassic marine life fossils. If you wish to accent a room with one of nature's most beautiful prehistoric masterpieces, this fossil would really set off any interior. Size: 26" W x 17.5" H (66 cm x 44.4 cm)

This particular specimen displays a completely dense layer of fossils that died, wave after wave building layers upon layer of themselves. Such a concentration of fossil creatures indicates a catastrophic event that resulted in the death of a large group of sea life together and at once. 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!

Provenance: purchased from a German collection in 2005

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