Here is a fossil shark teeth of the species Carcharias gustrowensis on a nice piece of "Sternberger". The fossil shark teeth is about 16 mm long. 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 of the most deverse erratics. There are about 570 different fossil species known from the "Sternberger Stone". | |||
Location: | Sternberger Stone, Kobrow, Nothern East Germany | ||
Size of Piece: | about 120 x 77 x 68 mm | ||
Age: | Oligocene, Chattian (about 23.03 Ma) |