The Vintage Fossil Stone Coffee Table composed of orthoceras and ammonites, are made to give you a glimpse of ancient life and to be a special person by having in your home one of these rare works of art in the world.
After transporting blocks of stone from quarries located on the outskirts of the city of Erfoud in Morocco, the workers cut them into pieces, then our craftsmen take care of sculpting, with the greatest care, various wonderful and unique decorative objects are made like the plates.
Ammonites are perhaps the best-known fossil, possessing the typically ribbed spiral-shaped shell. These creatures lived in the seas between 240 and 65 million years ago, when they died out along with the dinosaurs. Ammonites belong to a group of predators known as cephalopods, which includes their living relatives, octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus.
Orthocears are the remains of extinct marine animals, therefore, known as the fossil stone and is around 400 million years old. The ancestor to the squid, over 500 to 190 million years ago, they are marked with a date to the lower Ordovician to Triassic ages.
Each piece is unique, the size and shape may vary slightly from one item to another.
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Approximate dimensions:
H: 0,64 m ; L: 1,26 m ; W: 0,99 m