05535 - Beautiful Cut and Polished 2.14 Inch Septarian Nodule from South Morocco Shloenbacchia Search for other: Main group
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Description
Search for other: Main group pallasites
Reptilia - Sauropterygia - Pachypleuridae
transition zone/lower shoreface (10)
Very few studies have been made on this species and therefore nowadays we still know very little about the giant sawfish to whom this rostral tooth must have belonged
Handmade in the south of morocco
05535 - Beautiful Cut and Polished 2.14 Inch Septarian Nodule from South Morocco Shloenbacchia Search for other: Main groupSeptarian concretions or septarian nodules, are concretions containing angular cavities or cracks, called "septaria". The word comes from the Latin word septum; "partition", and refers to the cracks separations in this kind of rock. Cracks are highly variable in shape and volume, as well as the degree of shrinkage they indicate. Although it has commonly been assumed that concretions grew incrementally from the inside outwards, the fact that radially