21640 - Beautiful Polished Section Lot NWA Unclassified L-H Type Ordinary Chondrite Meteorite 36.0g Turtle Acastoides
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Description
Acastoides
Sister taxa: Chebbioceras
A Giant Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a suction feeding apparatus uinique among tetrapods (Ocepechelon bouyai) is recently described
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United States ( Nevada)
21640 - Beautiful Polished Section Lot NWA Unclassified L-H Type Ordinary Chondrite Meteorite 36.0g Turtle AcastoidesThese meteorites were found in the Saharan Desert in Northwest Africa, likely by nomads. In order to classify them it would be necessary to cut off a section for analysis. Although they are exceedingly rare when compared to terrestrial rocks, these are the most abundant type of meteorite and are referred to as common chondrites. H and L (designating the amount of metal contained) type chondrites have been already extensively studied. Composed largely