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Pyritised Ammonite

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Pyritised Ammonite

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Description
Locality: 
Buttenheim, Bamberg, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

This is a golden-brassy pyritized negative imprint (practically a perimorph/epimorph) of a Jurassic ammonite from the famousclay pit in Buttenheim near Unterstürmig.  The white remnants of the shell are brushed off with a brass brush, thus further enhancing the original brassy-golden color of the pyrite-ammonites.

If you're a Fossil collector please note that this ammonite had a healed part in the 'entrance' - sought after as a 'pathologic' ammonite. A Dinosaur might have bitten into it...

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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