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Dimensions
300mm x 300mm x 7mm
Each tile, Approximately square- not precisely, hand made.Weight
Approximately 2Kg Each tile.Price singularly
[see price list] Each tile.
Description
Devonian Marble Limestone Tiles; showing exceptional Fossil Inclusions from Orthoceras specimens, Ammonites/Ammonoids specimens, Belemnites/orthoceras, Bivalves, and other Devonian Molluscs and Crustacea.
Location
Western Desert ,Morocco Geological 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 or type of squid, A Marine invertebrate. The seas long ago teemed with these extraordinary creatures using a type of water jet propulsion, reaching lengths of up to approximately 1-3 metres in overall length; 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 7 feet/over 2 Metres in diameter.