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Arietites Bucklandi Ammonite

Arietites Bucklandi Ammonite
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Dorset, UK

Dimensions

17.5"/45cm 

Weight
32Kg

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Arietites Bucklandi Ammonite  Arietites Bucklandi Ammonite - NA0035
£950.00

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Description

An exceptionally large Classic British Ammonite Arietites Bucklandi, with superb preservation and colouration.

Serious Collectors edition; with the key characteristics of this Genus of Ammonite showing brilliantly

Professionally cleaned and prepared; with the latest equipment, with high sheen/lustre; extremely Glossy patina to the exterior shell.

The Arietites Bucklandi Ammonite is now, increasingly difficult to locate in the Lower Lias Jurassic fossil formations in Dorset. This Jurassic specimen is approximately 200 million years old.

Information

Often the centres of these large fossils are often lost to Pyretic decay which erodes the fine, smaller and much thinner inner whorls, as a result without exception these Arietites from this location have re-worked centres, in some cases rebuilt.

Genus

Arietites Bucklandi Ammonite sp.

Other Nomenclature

Sinemurian Ammonites, British Ammonites, UK Ammonites, British Mesozoic Fossils

Geological Age

Mesozoic Era: Lower Jurassic, Lower Sinemurian, Lower Lias; Blue Lias, around 200 million years ago

Location

Lower/Blue Lias, Chippel Bay, Golden Cap, Dorset, UK

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