05226 - Beautiful Pyritized 0.94 Inch Unidentified Lower Cretaceous Ammonites Mosasaur bones Nesov 1986 (sea turtle)
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Description
Nesov 1986 (sea turtle)
Nicely preserved and spectacularly well detailed specimen
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Micraster corbovis
Teeth heavy with smooth enamel surfaces
05226 - Beautiful Pyritized 0.94 Inch Unidentified Lower Cretaceous Ammonites Mosasaur bones Nesov 1986 (sea turtle)Specimen of extreme quality. Unidentified 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.