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From the album: Fossildude's Purchased/Gift Fossils
Dactylioceras tenuicostatum. Jurassic A gift from my good friend and fossil hunting partner, Jeffrey P. Thank you, @Jeffrey P ! It looks great in my display case.© 2021 Tim Jones
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Dactylioceras tenuicostatum prepared inside a concretion.
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94mm Dactylioceras tenuicostatum prepared inside a geode. Tenuicostatum zone, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Mya) Kettleness, North Yorkshire, UK I bought this from a well known collector named Anders Grube in Germany.- 3 replies
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This species gives its name to the zone and subzone at the bottom of the lower Toarcian. This very fine-ribbed specimen of the genus Dactylioceras is for me a fine representative for the legend of St. Hilda, the Abbess at the monastery in Whitby ca. 650 A.D. She wanted to build a convent there as well, but the grounds were infested with snakes, so she prayed so intensively that all of the snakes were turned into stone. Since then they are known as snakestones. I found this sample pretty well as is with a head that reminds us of a snake. Literature: Howarth, M.K. (1973): The Stratigraphy and Ammonite Fauna of the Upper Liassic Grey Shales of the Yorkshire Coast. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology. Vol.24 No.4
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