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Dimensions
25.5inches/65cm Height overall Weight 21.8Kg Total Orthoceras Sp. on Stainless Steel Base 12.7Kg Limestone Block 9.1Kg
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Orthoceras Phragmacone Fossil on Stainless Steel Base - AD2177 | ||
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Description
A Spectacularly Large specimen Orthoceras Phragmocone/ Phragmacone, now cleaned and semi-polished, revealing the replaced Calcite Mineral chambers. Mounted on Stainless Steel pinned base plate surmounted on limestone cube block.
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In the United kingdom collecting from the beach in such places as Whitby, N. Yorkshire and the Dorset coast, lymme Regis areas can prove productive in finding rostrums/common name bullets, of belemnites, the average length of these is between 4-6 inches. The rostrum, is the fossilised cartilage material, which acted as a counter balance weight for the Phragmacone, and was as the name suggests, the shell or bullet shaped apex to the Phragmacone. this is often found, the Phragmacone as a whole is a much rarer find.
Information
Orthoceras; also known as Straight Horn and Orthocones is an extinct Nautiloid / Cephalopod from the Orchid Family; Phylum Mollusca.Note it is sometimes misspelled as Orthocera, Orthocerus or Orthoceros