SILICIFIED FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE - 40 million years old - France
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40 million years old
Eocene period (Bartonian Stage)
Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France
A remarkable limestone packed with the fossil gastropods Potamides. The limestone has been converted to quartz over millions of years.
This piece has a flat, unpolished, cut surface with the rear a natural surface. The cut surface showing sections through the fossils.
Presented in a lidded gift box.
Size: 17 x 11 x 2.5 centimetres
Weight: 697 grams