Morocco, North Africa
Dimensions
Plaque Approximately
Height:
36 inches/91.5cm
Width:
21 inches/53.5cm
Weight
56.7Kg
Description
Beautiful Fossil Decor; skilfully and artistically sculpturally carved and then gradually polished giving a High Quality Finish, Truly inspiring Fossil piece, and extremely desirable.
Magnificent Ammonite Plaque of considerable size and exceptional value.
interestingly displaying in the stone geological fault lines
Good colour and well defined Ammonite inclusions, each specimens is of good size, and exposing great detail
This Item has been Reduced for Limited Time Only; RRP: 650.00 GBP
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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