Fossil Shrimp from Solnhofen, Germany
$600.00 USD
This aesthetic fossil shrimp comes from the famous Solnhofen lithographic limestone, in Eichstatt, Germany. This region is home to some of the world's most important fossil discoveries, including Archaeopteryx, the feathered dinosaur.
TAXONOMY
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Malacostraca
- Order: Decapoda
- Family: Aegeridae
- Genus: Aeger
- Species: Aeger spinipes
GEOLOGICAL CONTEXT
- Location: Solnhofen formation, Bavaria, Germany
- Age: Late Jurassic, 148 million years old.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
- Dimensions: The plate measures 31.2 cm long, 25.4 cm wide, and 0.5 cm thick
- Weight: 884 grams
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