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Paracidaris florigemma (PHILIPPS, 1829)

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Here offered from the French Jurassic is a rare and authentic Paracidaris florigemma with spines. The fossil sea urchin was found in the upper Jura of a coastal outcrop in the Charente-Maritime department in France. Regular Echinoids fossils with spines are often offered as so-called montages or assemblages. This euphemistic term means that the capsule and the spines are artistically and artificially assembled on a often so called "original matrix". Most of the time, all parts come from the same location, but most likely from different individuals. This is not the case with this Paracidaris. Everything belongs together here and is also in its original place on the matrix. The fossil was stabilized from the back. The echinoid fossil was partially exposed and damaged by the weather and the waves of the sea. Therefore the fossil was prepared from the better side. The Paracidaris capsule itself, without spines, measures around 28 mm. This is a good and honest fossil of a quite rare Paracidaris florigemma with spines.

	Location:	Coastal outcrop, Charente-Maritime,, France
	Size Matrix:	about 97 x 100 mm
	Age:	Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian (about 150 Mill. years)

Product no.: 10866