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Pyrite On Fossil Sea Urchin

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Pyrite On Fossil Sea Urchin

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Description
Locality: 
Höver Quarry, Ilten, Sehnde, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Fossil
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
158.00gr
Description

This is a fossil sea urchin from the Höver site in Lower Saxony. The age of the fossil is 75 million years. On the very well preserved skin of the sea urchin there are some pyrite crystals.

The sea urchin is an micraster. 

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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