ST009 - THREE-DIMENSIONAL LACUSTRINE FOSSIL STROMATOLITE COLONIES FROM THE LOWER PERMIAN OF GERMANY

Product Description

ITEM # 

ST009

ID

Lacustrine stromatolite colonies

FOUND

Lauterecken Formation - West Germany

AGE

LOWER PERMIAN:  295 - 280 million years ago

SIZE

4"x 2.65" overall, colonies 2" - 1.65" diameter

CONDITION

NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION

NOTE

EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE COLONIES
IN SITU ON ORIGINAL HOST ROCK AS FOUND

INCLUDES STAND - Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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The fossil market has no shortage of STROMATOLITE fossils but in every case, they are sliced and polished slabs of a former fossil colony.  The fossil colonies look little more than amorphous stone blobs prior to slicing, lacking any fine original life-like detail.  This is an  EXTREMELY RARE and unusual example of several LIFELIKE lacustrine (formed in a prehistoric lake) stromatolite colonies once deposited by prehistoric cyanobacteria.  This specimen has been laboriously prepared in our lab where we painstakingly removed the upper matrix rock layer to reveal all the delicate intact anatomy of each colony.  The detail is so minute and intact that they appear as if still alive exactly similar to the living specimens found today in Shark Bay, Australia.  We have never before seen such an exquisite fossilized cyanobacteria colony as these.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for any institutional exhibition or collection.   100% ORIGINAL with NO REPAIR, RESTORATION OR ENHANCEMENT.