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Galerites vulgaris (LESKE, 1778)
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This echinoid fossil shows a rare variation of preservation, a fossil spirit level. After the embedding in the soft sediment was this echinoid fossil only partial filled with chalk mud, so that a water bubble was preserved in the upper level. In the later progress of digenesis of the sediment was this hollow space partial filled with calcite crystals. The pattern of crystals matched the plate pattern of the fossil echinoid. Fossil spirit levels are only very rarly preserved echinoid how ever and this fossil does show this kind of preservation in a very aesthetic way. | |||
Location: | Store Heddinge, Denmark | ||
| Size of Fossil : | about 19 mm | ||
| Age: | Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian (about 65.6 Ma) | ||
Product no.: 4872