THE MAGNIFICENT FIND FROM BASEL

Rarely can a collector claim to have made the ONE find of his life after decades of intense collecting. Not so in this case: the female specimen of the ammonite Stephanoceras towers large in the foreground – diagonally behind it is the associated, much smaller male with the typical extensions of its shell mouth. But that’s not all: directly behind the ammonites is a specimen of the coveted giant Belemnite Megatheuthis – a close relative of the ammonites. The two mussels, which lived buried in the mud at that time, round off this snapshot from the Jurassic period perfectly!