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Product Description
ITEM #
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ST014
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ID
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Lacustrine stromatolite colony
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FOUND
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Lauterecken Formation - West Germany
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AGE
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LOWER PERMIAN: 295 - 280 million years ago
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SIZE
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5.75" across x 3.5" high when assembled
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CONDITION
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NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION
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NOTE
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EXTREMELY RARE SLICED AND POLISHED
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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 STROMATOLITE FOSSILS
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 a single LIFELIKE lacustrine (formed in a prehistoric lake) stromatolite colony once deposited by prehistoric cyanobacteria. It has been sliced and polished to reveal the interior structures. The outer anatomy is still intact and the colony is complete! This specimen has been laboriously prepared in our lab where we painstakingly removed the outer matrix rock layer to reveal all the delicate intact anatomy of the outside of the 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.
