Description:

Eastern Europe, Jurassic (Oxfordian period), ca. 155 million years ago. Quarried from a rare locale in Eastern Europe, this is a large, beautiful white limestone rock slab which is the fossilized Jurassic Period ocean floor, complete with perfectly preserved ripples from wave action approximately 160 million years ago. Amazing to see and even more amazing to touch! Slab can also be laid flat as it was originally formed beneath the sea. If laid flat, this would make an incredible base to display smaller fossils of various ocean life resting on it such as fossil shark teeth, ammonite fossils or trilobite fossils. The rock is hard, durable and very stable, so much so that this slab could even be walked on without damaging the ripple pattern. Size: 2" L x 22" W x 23" H (5.1 cm x 55.9 cm x 58.4 cm)

Some of the largest dinosaurs that ever walked the earth were in existence when these ocean floor ripples were formed. As that was happening, monstrous prehistoric sea reptiles such as massive plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, swam over this fossilized sea bed. Formed by ocean waves 160 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled the Earth!

Provenance: purchased from French collector in 2009

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