You are purchasing the exact item described and pictured. As a natural product, irregularities in form and condition may occur, which should not be considered as defects. Therefore, we strongly recommend carefully reviewing the provided images!
Name:
Common name:
Bourguetia striata → Sea snail
Synonym:
Bourguetia striata → Melania striata
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Pseudomelaniidae → Bourguetia → striata → Bourguetia striata → Sowerby, 1812
Location:
Brunkensen near Alfeld, Lower Saxony / Germany
Age:
Jurassic [j], Malm / 150 million years
Size of the fossil:
Length: 10,3 cm
Width: 5,8 cm
Weight:
At the Kikedal below the Hohenstein cliffs near Brunkensen in Lower Saxony, large masses of limestone slid down from the Malm in March 1988 after a number of previous events. A large number of fossilized snails were found in this coral oolite, in particular the species Bourguetia striata offered here. The site where it was found has been largely searched and overgrown again.The tips of the snail shells were mostly not filled and are often filled with crystalline calcite, so that they are usually broken off.We have this small aesthetic flaw remedied by careful addition. So please pay attention to the pictures.
Top added (reconstructed)!
