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Here is a very nice, VERY large heteromorph ammonite plate from France. The large specimen is almost 1 meter in size. They quite often refer to specimens such as this as "marine cemeteries", due to the mass mortality evident on the plates. there are several differnt genus of ammonites represented here, as well as other inverts. We recently sold the sister specimen to this....whose large specimen measured about 3/4 the size of this one. This is most likely the single finest specimen of this type of ammonite (not to mention the killer association!!) known to science. I will also include another photo of the one that we just sold. The smaller of the two took almost an entire year to prepare, and is displayed exactly as it was found. The matrix is essentially a diatamecious mud, so preparation of matrix specimens is time consuming.
Here's the info:
Genre : Emericeras emerci ( big one)
hamulina ( like a saxophone...Hamulina clintoni !!!)
Acrioceras ( little like the big)
lilltle no unrouled Costidiscus
espèce :
Age : Barrémian
localité : Alpes de Hautes Provence
Here's the info:
Genre : Emericeras emerci ( big one)
hamulina ( like a saxophone...Hamulina clintoni !!!)
Acrioceras ( little like the big)
lilltle no unrouled Costidiscus
espèce :
Age : Barrémian
localité : Alpes de Hautes Provence