CRI040 - SPECTACULAR FEATHER STAR CRINOID FOSSIL COMATURELLA FROM THE JURASSIC DEPOSITS OF SOLNHOFEN

Product Description

ITEM # 

CRI040

ID

Comaturella formosa

FOUND

Solnhofen Plattenkalk - Zandt, Germany

AGE

UPPER JURASSIC (MALM):  154 - 144 million years ago

SIZE

7.6" x 5" x 1' thick plate

CONDITION

NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION 100% AUTHENTIC
RARE 3D DETAIL OF ENTIRE FEATHER STAR.
NATURAL COLOR!

NOTE

SUPREME EXAMPLE OF A RARE CRINOID.
ARMS SPREAD AND SHOWING WONDERFUL 
ANATOMY AND PRESERVATION.  

INCLUDES STAND - Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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This is an SUPREME GRADE fossil of a prehistoric crinoid called a FEATHER STAR from the Jurassic lithographic limestones of Solnhofen, Germany.  The color is compltely natural, famously seen in the Zandt deposits.  All the anatomy is 3D, protruding up off the limestone rock face.  This must have been a magnificent-looking creature in the Jurassic seas with its delicate and graceful feather-like arms!  On an unbroken heavy rock plate. 

Famous for producing an astonishing diversity of rare and most intricately preserved fossils found anywhere in the world, the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone Formation of southern Germany is legendary.  Fine quality Solnhofen fossils are now much more rare than in past years.  Many superb specimens come from old private collections as modern machinery destroys many fossils that were once easy to see and extract in the days of manual labor.  Also, many quarries are now closed to commercial operations.