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Fossil

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Locality: 
Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Fossil
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 3.4 cm
Description

This is Bourgetia Striata. Bourgetia is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelaniidae. This specimen existed from Bajocian to Kimmeridgian  - so from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Jurassic. It is approx 168.4 to 150.8 million years old.

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