Here is a very atractive piece of "Sternberger" with Dentalium polypleurum and other species on it. The Dentalium polypleurum shells are stream oriented. The "Sternberger" what is also referred as “Sternberger Kuchen*” (German, Sternberger Cake) are a glacial erratic boulders (Geschiebe). The "Sternberger" does have a very local occurrence around Sternberg and Kobrow in Northern East Germany. It is a siderite sandstone also sometimes carbonate cement. The "Sternberger" have a upper Oligocene, Chattian Age. The "Sternberger" is one the most deverse erratics. There are about 570 different fossil species known from the "Sternberger Gestein". | |||
Location: | Sternberger Gestein, Kobrow, nothern East Germany | ||
Size of Piece: | about 112 x 107 x 43 mm | ||
Age: | Oligocene, Chattian (about 23.03 Ma) |