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Quartz Var Eisenkiesel With Fossil Fungi Mycelium

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Quartz Var Eisenkiesel With Fossil Fungi Mycelium

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Locality: 
Rösenbeck Quarries, Brilon, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
20.9 × 13.3 × 7 cm
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After hard contemplating I decided to let go of some bigger specimen from my collection. This is the biggest of the Sauerland fossil fungi quartzes I ever had, with hundreds of eisenkiesel crystals containing mycelia inclusions. And a very interesting one too. To top everything said about those unique fossil mycelia inclusions, some of these quartz crystal phantoms are shaped in the artichoke habit. Rösenbeck lies in the same geological setting as Warstein. As far as I know up to date the only localities worldwide for this material are in the Sauerland area - "type locality" Warstein. Here's an extract from a German publication: "Fossil fungi in iron stromatolites from Warstein (Rhenish Massif, Northwestern Germany) Zeitschrift Facies Verlag Springer Berlin / Heidelberg ISSN 0172-9179 (Print) 1612-4820 (Online) Heft Volume 7, Number 1 / Dezember 1982 DOI 10.1007/BF02537228 Seiten 237-259 Fossil iron stromatolites, formed by fungi, have been found near Warstein, W. Germany. The stromatolitic and massive ferruginous quartzes are always confined to karstic hollow molds of the Devonian "Massenkalk". The few occurrences show that these are chalcedony-quartz-silicifations of mainly ac-oriented, corrosively widened cracks. A mineralization temperature of about 120°C was found by microthermometrical measurements. Druses in ferruginous quartz sometimes carry clear, prismatic to pseudocubic quartzes embedding fungal mycelia. The fungal filaments are generally encrusted with goethite and appear in stromatolitic, massive and patch-like forms. The fungi can be referred to the order Mucorales and the genera Chaetomium, Preussia, and Papulaspora. An Oligocene/Miocene age is presumed ... " I can deliver more text if needed.

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