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Dimensions
17.5"/45cm Weight 32Kg
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Arietites Bucklandi Ammonite - NA0035 | ||
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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.