WORLDWIDE EXPORTER / IMPORTER & SOURCE OF FOSSIL MARBLE

Location: Morocco, Er Rachidia, Erfoud

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Material Type: Fossil Marble - Collection includes 5 colors featuring orthoceras and ammonite fossils up to 500 million years old. Exotic one-of-a-kind stone.

Stone Names: Kajal Fossil Marble - Black Fossil Marble - Brown, Chocolat Fossi Marble - Dark Brown Bordeaux Fossil Marble - Red Hezhra Fossil Marble - Gray

Product / Services List: Quarry Blocks, Slabs, Tiles, Cut to Size, Kitchen Counters and Islands, Tables - Conference, Dining, Accent, Sinks, Vanities, Table Bases, Table Tops, Hotel Reception and Concierge Desks and Counters, Bar tops and counters, Fountains, Stoneware dishes, Decorative Objects, Custom designs, Inset and Inlaid Designs

Pricelist: Prices vary according to quantity, color, finish, fabrication.

Regular Stock: Some slabs, tables, sinks. Prefer to provide and fulfill custom orders that meet specifics of client needs.

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Business Type: Quarry; Factory; Fabricator; Exporter; Importer; Distributor; Retailer;

Type of Company: Partnership Firm

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History & Background: Orthoceras and ammonites - the embedded animal forms seen throughout our unique fossil marble - are prehistoric marine life that existed in ancient seas between the Ordovician and Devonian periods, and the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. These marine dwellers, now extinct, were members of the cephalopod class, making them ancestors of present-day squid, octopus, nautilus and cuttlefish. They disappeared along with the dinosaurs approximately 65 million years ago.Ammonites, identified by their round nautilus-shaped, spiral-esque fossilized forms, first appeared during the Silurian Period (435 million to 410 million years ago) and were abundant and widespread in the seas of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (175 million to 65 million years ago). Because different species of ammonites lived during different time periods, scientists use them to determine the relative age of the rocks in which their fossils are found (referred to as "index fossils"). Ammonites varied greatly in size, from the largest known measuring nearly six feet across, to as small as a dime, or approximately three-quarters of an inch. During the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, ammonites evolved more streamlined shells for swimming and the structure of their shell became stronger. Different shell shapes emerged as well, including snail-like and uncoiled.Orthoceras, meaning "straight horn", refers to a particular fossil genus of European and North African nautiloid cephalopods that existed from the middle Ordovician Period to the Devonian Period, or between 470 to 360 million years ago. Fossilized orthoceras are recognized by their elongated rocket or spaceship-like cylindrical spear shapes.Varying in size from a few centimeters to more than nine feet long, orthoceras are similar to the modern chambered nautilus, but grew a straight shell rather than a coiled one. They were among the most advanced of the invertebrates, having eyes, jaws, and a sophisticated nervous system. Orthoceras swam freely using a jet propulsion system of squirting water from their bodies, and had tentacles and ink sacs much like squid.Both ammonites and orthoceras probably lived lives that lasted from one to six years, with the majority living two to four years. They fed on plankton (tiny free-floating organisms), sea lilies and smaller orthoceras. Although many fed off the ocean floor, others may have caught plankton while floating or swimming via jet propulsion, expelling water through a funnel-like opening to propel themselves in the opposite direction.As orthoceras and ammonites died, their shells accumulated in great numbers on the sea floor where they were aligned by currents, buried by sediments, and transformed over the ages into stone by various natural physical and chemical processes. Ammonites and orthoceras lived exclusively in marine environments and their fossilized presence in stone indicates the location of prehistoric seas.roject References: Please see our Projects page at irst-ever U.S. commercial installation of corporate lobby coming later 2003.

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