05229 - Beautiful Pyritized 0.96 Inch Phylloceras Lower Cretaceous Ammonites Stephanodus It comes from a new

It comes from a new unpublished location

Rare devonian cephalopod species

Native copper occurs rarely as isometric cubic and octahedral crystals

Everything else you see is the system of sensory lines (terrace ridges) that are already described in the article (1)

That specimen does like a claw but isn´t it

05229 - Beautiful Pyritized 0.96 Inch Phylloceras Lower Cretaceous Ammonites Stephanodus It comes from a newSpecimen of extreme quality. 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.