22408 - Nicely Preserved Pyritized 0.96 Inch Unidentified Lower Cretaceous Ammonites Anetoceras See also Sepkoski 2002
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
See also Sepkoski 2002
As it corresponds with the family Lichidae
A Giant Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a suction feeding apparatus uinique among tetrapods (Ocepechelon bouyai) is recently described
Extremely rare specimen
many of the spines during the preparation process have been fractured and glued again
22408 - Nicely Preserved Pyritized 0.96 Inch Unidentified Lower Cretaceous Ammonites Anetoceras See also Sepkoski 2002Unidentified species. His suture lines are wonderfully well detailed. It is naturally pyritized. It has undergone a taphonomic process of permineralization in Iron Sulfide (Pyrite). Permineralization is a process of fossilization in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms.