Morocco, North Africa
Dimensions
Plaque
40.5"/103cm high
47"/119.5cm wide
Largest Ammonite sp.
16"/40.5cm diameter
Weight
84Kg
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Ammonite Plaque Decor Image 2 - NA0465 [a] |
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Ammonite Plaque Decor Image 3 - NA0465 [b] |
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Description
Beautiful Fossil Decor; skilfully and artistically polished fossil bedrock plaque.
Exceptional Ammonite inclusions, each specimen is of good size, showing great detail
impressiveAmmonite Plaque of considerable size. The whole supported on freeform foot, carved from the solid bedrock, so as to exhibit a flowing line of symmetry in a sculptural and yet natural style
Location
Erfoud, Morocco, North Africa
Geological Age
Paleozoic Era, Devonian Period, around 400 to 350 million years ago
Information
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 up 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.
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