| Category: | Auctions - Antiques and collector objects |
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| Position: | Id: 27096417 · Catalog number: 05-05341 · Ware in house 2 |
| Termin: | Auction at 30.05.2026 · Begin: 10:00:00 (Balance time 29 days and 4 hours and 14 minutes) Preview: 19.05.26 |
| Limit: | 2.500,- € |
| Beschreibung | Particularly rare fossil turtle shell from theMessel mine, Darmstadt, approx. 300-250 million years old, cantilevered specimen, approx. 14.5x12 cm, cf. Lit. Messel, Treasuresof Prehistoric Times, Gabriele Gruber, NorbertMicklich, p. 66 ff, from an old fossil collection, find from 1985, museum; The MesselPit has been recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, one of only three sites in the world; the exact origin of the turtles is currently somewhat controversial, but the earliest forms lived in the Upper Triassic, around 210 million years ago |