08928 -Top Rare NWA IMB Impact Melt Breccia Chondrite Meteorite Polished Section 45.2 g Neltneria McKellar and Chatterton 2009

McKellar and Chatterton 2009

Asaphus kowalewskii Lawrow

to which a partial cephalon of Prionocheilus oriented upside down and with its main artificially filled furrows have been embedded as a pigidium

MAASTRICHTIAN OF ANGOLA

Morocco (3)

08928 -Top Rare NWA IMB Impact Melt Breccia Chondrite Meteorite Polished Section 45.2 g Neltneria McKellar and Chatterton 2009Beautiful example of a huge polished 120. 4 g section of this rare type of Chondrite Impact Melt Breccia. The authenticity of this specimen is guaranteed by the geologist Juan Avils Poblador, member of International Meteorite Collectors Association (IMCA 5681). Impact melt breccias are the result of a major shock between asteroids and parent bodies. They can be of a chondritic or an achondritic source, they range from simple shock veins up to complete