Lot 59A
Western Europe, Germany, Eichstatt, Solnhofen (Altmuhltal) Formation, Jurassic Period, ca. 154 to 144 million years ago. This shrimply amazing prawn fossil, Antrimpos genus, preserved in a large limestone matrix slab. The shrimp is superbly preserved and all original material - none of the customary painting and enhancement! As perfectly captured, this shrimp possess an elongated, segmented body with a flexible carapace covering the thorax and head. Other basic traits are the presence of multiple pairs of limbs and a fan-like tail. Because of the lightness and loose articulation of a decapod's carapace, intact preservation of the entire creature is quite rare and the abundance of the animal in the fossil layers is most often represented by partial or poorly preserved specimens. Size of stone matrix: 9.5" L x 7.5" W (24.1 cm x 19 cm); fossil: 2.75" L (7 cm)
Famous for producing an astonishing diversity of rare and most intricately preserved fossils found anywhere in the world, the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone Formation of southern Germany is legendary. Fine quality Solnhofen fossils are now much rarer than in past years since many quarries are now closed to commercial operations and the use of modern machinery often destroys many fossils. Please note that while crustacean fossils on lithographic limestone from Germany are often artificially enhanced in some way. If you examine and compare the details of this specimen with substantially lower-priced offers of some other dealers, you will easily see the difference especially if they post high-resolution images. This often occurs by painting artificial fine detail of appendages and antennae, but many are complete forgeries with no actual fossil present. A variety of sellers offer these fakes and heavily enhanced "fossils" as 100% genuine instead of disclosing their restoration accurately. There is no comparison to a completely genuine fossil such as this specimen.
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Provenance: private Diamond Springs, California, USA collection
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