Jurassic Morrison Dinosaur Bone Sphere VF-D-16-004 Agatized and pelecypods are locally present

and pelecypods are locally present

The Solnhofen beds lie in the German state of Bavaria (Bayern)

Illite is the dominant clay mineral

halfway between Nuremberg (Nurnberg) and Munich (Munchen) and were originally quarried as a source of Lithographic limestone

and plant debris

Jurassic Morrison Dinosaur Bone Sphere VF-D-16-004 Agatized and pelecypods are locally presentDinosaur bone sphere Morrison Formation Upper Jurassic Utah This is a very fine example of agatized dinosaur bone from the Morrison Formation of Utah. The fossilized internal structure of the bone is perfectly preserved. The specimen is most likely from a sauropod dinosaur and probably from the distal end of a limb bone. The pink colors are caused by trace amounts of uranium minerals that were present during the fossilization process. The sphere is 15