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Dimensions
8"/20.3cm wide 6.6"/17cm height 2"/5cm thickness [measured together as a pair] Weight 3.439Kg [weighed together as a pair] Images show One Pair of Bookends at different View Points
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Fossil Bookends Image 2 - NA0555 [a] | ||
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Fossil Bookends Image 3 - NA0555 [b] | ||
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Description
Fossil Marble Bookends; the Limestone tastefully fashioned & highly polished, teeming with various and numerous Fossil inclusions.
Speckles of Iron Pyrite, also known as Fools Gold, seen in the Marble; Rare
Our artisans creatively producing a unique domestic and fossil object that is highly decorative and a unique fossil for sale at our fossil shop, in the fossil store Ltd, in the United Kingdom.
Location
Province of Errachidia, Western Desert, South East MoroccoGeological Age
Paleozoic Era, Devonian Period, around 400 to 350 million years agoInformation
Fossil Devonian Fossil Marble originates from the Western Sahara Desert, southern east Morocco.
The Black Fossil stone is from a small enclave named Tazzerine.
The Brown Fossil stone is from the region of Erfoud, one of the outposts before the Sahara Desert waste stretch out southward, deep into the African Continent, both places reside in the province of Errachidia.
This resource was discovered commercially in the 1970s and has been producing fine Fossil Specimens since that time.
The Fossils Inclusions in the Black stone are predominately Orthoceras a type of Cuttle Fish, Marine invertebrate. The seas long ago teemed with these extraordinary creatures, reaching lengths uo to approximately 1 meter in average; some animals even larger have been recorded.The Brown stone contains the both Orthoceras and Ammonoids, which include Nautiloids and Ammonites.
Most of the creatures died out in a mass extinction some 74 million years ago, approximately the Campanian Epoch, from the Late Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era. Some Ammonite Species have been recorded up to and over seven feet in diameter.
Uniquely & skilfully cut & polished in the whole, from fossilerous bedrock [matrix], high quality polished finish.
The artist here creatively producing with great sympathy, foresight & symmetry a unique fossil object which has great art form & also that is decorative.
The limestone comes from the Western Desert regions of Morocco. Once a vast ocean floor bed now raised, to form part of the greater Sahara Desert. Occasionally the sand reveals low lying slab rock outcrops, semi polished by eons of shifting sands. These outcrops often seem to resemble a unique manufactured tiled floor, rather than a natural event of nature. Occasionally Ammonoids and other fossils litter the rock floor.
Truly ore inspiring sight in the seemingly flat arid desert regions. It is great fun to pour water over these floors and see them come alive.