FOSSILIFEROUS MARBLE TABLETOP
Agoniatited sp.
Devonian
Sahara Desert, near Tamud, Morocco
This fine little tabletop comes from the 350 million-year-old fossil deposits of the Western Sahara and has been brought to a high-polished finish, better to display its marvelous earthy brown-green coloring. In dramatic contrast, however, polished flush with the surface, it contains also the well-defined remains of two ammonites, 7 1/2 and 6 inches wide, in distinctive white and gray, along with numerous other small fossil remains, and the ghostly, evocative outline of a yet larger ammonite. A dramatic and unusual furnishing piece, it measures 33 6/8 x 19 6/8 x 3/4 inches.