03050 - Superb Pyritized 1.14'' Karakaschiceras Lower Cretaceous Ammonites Study lined with barbed teeth
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Description
lined with barbed teeth
It is a quite dominant species in the phosphate quarries in this sector of Morocco
found in the Cretaceous zone of the Kem Kem
PLoS One 5(5):e10875)
It has not been restored or repared
03050 - Superb Pyritized 1.14'' Karakaschiceras Lower Cretaceous Ammonites Study lined with barbed teethIt is naturally pyritized. It has undergone a taphonomic process of permineralization in Iron Sulfide (Pyrite). Permineralization is a process of fossilization in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms.