STRX002 - NATURAL FORM OLIGOCENE LACUSTRINE FOSSIL STROMATOLITE COLONY FROM GERMANY

Product Description

ID

Lacustrine stromatolite colony

FOUND

West Germany

AGE

OLIGOCENE:  30 million years

SIZE

5.5" x 3.5" overall

CONDITION

NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION

NOTE

EXTREMELY RARE 3D COLONY
ON ORIGINAL HOST ROCK 
AS FOUND!  

HOW MANY LIFELIKE PRESERVED
OLIGOCENE STROMATOLITES
DO YOU SEE ON THE MARKET?

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 an OLIGOCENE lacustrine (formed in a prehistoric lake) stromatolite colony 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 it appears 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 OR RESTORATION.