Knife block made of Nero Assoluto with Orthoceras

Name: Knife block made of Nero Assoluto with Orthoceras
Brand: Tycoon Stone
SKU: TSSFO-001
Price: 36800.0 EUR
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Stopping places	10
Weight	20.38kg
Size	Length 81.7 cm \| Width 12 cm \| Height 36 cm
serial number	TSSFO.001

Knife block made of Nero Assoluto, with high gloss polished ORTHOCERAS on natural stone.

Orthoceras (ancient Greek for "straight horn") is a genus of extinct cephalopods from the group of nautiloids (squid). The length of the horn-like cephalopods varies between one centimeter and 5 meters. Orthoceras lived between 470 and 252 million years ago in the geological period from the Ordovician to the Triassic. With an age of almost half a billion years , these fossils belong to the Paleozoic period and thus to an era that was, for example, long before the dinosaurs. They are the first representatives of the nautiloids to live in the sea with a cylindrical, usually straight shell that was divided into segments. They moved in a horizontal position with a "repulsion nozzle principle" by flowing in and squeezing out the water. There were squid-like monsters up to 5 meters long, with muscular tentacles at the end of the head. The very fast and well-swimming cephalopod was a carnivorous predator. The raw, natural mother rock beautifully showcases the highly polished Orthoceras fossils.

Fossil:	Orthoceras
Location:	Arfoud, Errachidia Province, Morocco
Formation:	Upper Jurassic, Oxfordian
Age:	approx. 300 million years

The Nero Assoluto natural stone is one of the most elegant of its kind. The black stone is a gabro, a magmatic stone of plutonic origin. Also known as plutonite, these stones are formed deep inside the earth, mainly in the oceanic crust. Among the gabbros, the Nero Assoluto Zimbabwe is a rare plutonic rock in the composition of a gabbro-plutonic stone. The special feature here is that this stone appears almost exclusively in black and is covered with tiny minerals.