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Name: Conophyton
garganicum australe
Stromatolite
Age: Mesoproterozoic
(1.2 billion years old)
Size: mm (25.4mm=1
inch): 230 by 90 (9 1/8 by 3 1/2 inches)
Location: Irregully
Formation, Bangemall Basin, near Ashburton River, Kooline Station, Western
Australia
Code: DS167
Price: $95.00 -
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 The
stromatolite is a light earth tone and exhibits fine banding throuout.
The formation from which it comes in Western Australia dates to
the Mesoproterozoic, to a time that with the first use of sex
on earth for reproduction and diversity was occuring, and when
the earliest cells with nuclei, the eucaryotes, were first appearing.
The beautiful
specimen has been polished to a mirror finish perpendicular to
the growth lines. Australian stromatolite is hard to get owing
to the remote localities.
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