Once upon a time, long before humans walked the earth, a little spiral-shelled creature lived in an ancient sea.
Millions of years passed. Kingdoms rose and fell, coastlines wandered, and the sea surrendered its treasures to stone. Hidden within the earth, this one waited.
An Aturia from the Eocene, approximately 34–56 million years ago, its caramel-coloured spiral rests in pale rock scattered with smaller fossil fragments. Sweeping lines trace the chambers of its former home like winding staircases in a tiny underwater castle.
A treasure for your cabinet of curiosities, and a piece of an ocean no human ever stood beside.
Aturia sp. · Nautiloid fossil
Locality: Boujdour
Age: Eocene, approximately 34–56 million years
Dimensions: 17.5 × 12.6 × 8 cm
Fossil: 10.1 cm
Weight: 1.454 kg
Partially reconstructed and treated with a clear conservation coating to protect the specimen and give the surface its sheen.
Once upon a time, long before humans walked the earth, a little spiral-shelled creature lived in an ancient sea.
Millions of years passed. Kingdoms rose and fell, coastlines wandered, and the sea surrendered its treasures to stone. Hidden within the earth, this one waited.
An Aturia from the Eocene, approximately 34–56 million years ago, its caramel-coloured spiral rests in pale rock scattered with smaller fossil fragments. Sweeping lines trace the chambers of its former home like winding staircases in a tiny underwater castle.
A treasure for your cabinet of curiosities, and a piece of an ocean no human ever stood beside.
Aturia sp. · Nautiloid fossil
Locality: Boujdour
Age: Eocene, approximately 34–56 million years
Dimensions: 17.5 × 12.6 × 8 cm
Fossil: 10.1 cm
Weight: 1.454 kg
Partially reconstructed and treated with a clear conservation coating to protect the specimen and give the surface its sheen.
