Lot 899
Huge Starfish AndTrilobite Plate From Morocco. Finding a complete starfish is not easy because the delicate arms break off quite easily during the fossilization process. Finding a mass burial of 45 complete starfish is extraordinary.This huge 33" x 25" museum quality plate is 475 million years old from Lkaidrami, Messeu, South Morocco. This magnificent sea bottom slab preserves a snapshot of what life existed on the sandy bottom of the warm seas of Morocco 475 million years ago. There are 45 brittle stars up to 4 inches in diameter. Brittle starfish usually attach themselves to the sea bottom and filter feed small creatures that float by. Also, there is a large 5.5. inch long spiny trilobite, Selenopeltis which is quite a scare trilobite and very distinctive with its long genal spines that it used for protections. To complete the picture of the Ordovician sea bottom, there is an unusual mystery pair of fossils that could be some sort of sea plant. The larger one is 12 x 3.5 inches and the smaller one is 8 x 4.5 inches. They are bilaterally symmetric with a raised center line all the way up and down their body. Whatever they are they are undescribed. This is a rare opportunity to acquire both a rare and dramatic fossil for both display and study.
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Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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