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Product Description
ITEM #
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SF020
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ID
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Furcaster paleozoicus
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FOUND
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Hunsruck Shale - Bundenbach, Germany
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AGE
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LOWER DEVONIAN (EMSIAN): 390 million years ago
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SIZE
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11.25" x 6.75" overall, starfish is 5.25" across
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CONDITION
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NO REPAIR, RESTORATION OR ENHANCEMENT
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NOTE
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FANTASTIC EXAMPLE
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INCLUDES STAND - Actual Item - One Only
Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet |
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CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT STARFISH
This is an exquisite and unusually large Furcaster paleozoicus brittle star starfish fossil from the famous Bundenbach Slates of Germany. The fossil is 100% natural and authentic. This starfish displays rare soft tissue preserved as when once alive and is from a time when the seas were teeming with bizarre marine life such as trilobites and crinoids. From a VERY old collection and getting scarcer and scarcer to find. NO REPAIR, RESTORATION OR ENHANCEMENT. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
The Hunsruck Slates of Bundenbach, Germany are now protected and have been closed to collecting for quite some time. The only way to acquire a fossil from this famous location is to find an old collection piece for sale. The quarries were once worked for slate roofing tiles, with the slate being cut and split by manual labor which permitted the occasional discovery by quarry workers of fossils in the slate tiles. When a fossil was discovered, they were usually set aside for collectors. Later technological advances in fossil preparation utilized various methods to further remove the matrix around the fossil without damaging the specimen thereby revealing incredible preservation rarely seen in preserved remains. The last mines were abandoned in the 1960's.
