Autenticity - Fossil Art Design

Scientific analysis and places of discovery

FOSSIL WOOD

Sample: Fossilized wood

Age: Messinian ( 5-7 milion year )

Origin: Piedmont (province of Asti)

The sample owes its excellent conservation to the silty-clayey matrix of the enclosing deposits; these conditions have allowed a particular and unique fossilization of its kind in that characterized by the association of three different minerals: silica, chalcedony microcrystals and, occasionally, calcite crystals.

From the paleoenvironmental point of view, the sedimentation of these woods probably took place in areas lakes and marshes in which the scarce presence of oxygen favored the preservation almost perfect of all the characteristic structures of the trunk.

Places of discovery

MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS

FOSSIL SHELL PETTINE

Sample: Fossilized Shell

Age: Pliocene ( 2-5 milion year )

Origin: Piedmont (province of Asti)

The samples are perfectly preserved thanks to fossilization by encrustation, mainly composed of calcium carbonate. The finding occur in Pliocene sands with very fine grain size and sedimented layer by layer, at abouth 200 meters above sea level.

Places of discovery

ITALIAN PLIOCENE

FOSSIL SHELL AMMONITE

Sample: Fossilized Shell (cephalopod mollusk)

Age: Cretacico Inferiore, Albiano ( 100-113 milion year )

Origin: Madagascar

The sample is perfectly preserved, thanks to a fossilization

in clayey sediments of marine origin,

this has preserved the original mother-of-pearl coating.

Composed mainly of silicon, calcite and aragonite.

Places of discovery

LOWER CRETACEOUS

FOSSIL SHARK TOOTH

Sample: Fossilized Tooth

Age: Miocene Medio, Langhiano ( 15 milion years )

Origin: Belgio, Anversa (province of Antwerp)

The excellent conservationis due to direct fossilization

through molecular substitution, mainy composed of calcium

carbonate.

Antwerpen Shark Teeth, or Antwerp shark teeth, are shark

tooth fossils that have been found in the Antwerp region

of Belgium. These fossils date back to the Miocene period,

which is about 23 to 5 million years ago. Antwerp shark

teeth are known for their quality and variety.

They are often well preserved and can vary in size

and shape. Some teeth can be very large, even reaching 5

centimeters in length. These fossils were first discovered

in the 19th century during gravel mining in the Antwerp

region.

The extracted gravel was used for the construction of

roads and buildings, and in the process fossils were

discovered and collected.

Places of discovery

LANGHIANO

FOSSIL SHARK TOOTH

Sample: Fossilized Tooth

Age: Cretaceo Superiore ( 70 milion years )

Origin: Marocco, Erfoud

The Erfoud mines are famous for their wealth of fossils, 
especially ammonites and shark teeth.
Erfoud is a city located in the Drâa-Tafilalet region of 
Morocco, and is known as the "capital of fossils".
The Erfoud Fossil Mines were discovered in the 1970s 
and have since become one of the main tourist attractions
in the region. They are located in the Sahara Desert and 
are rich in layers of sedimentary rocks that contain a wide
range of marine fossils. 
These fossils provide important information about the 
region's geological history and marine life that existed 
millions of years ago. The fossil mines are open to visitors 
and offer the opportunity to join guided tours to explore
the mines and search for fossils.

Places of discovery

UPPER CRETACEOUS