* This excellent, aesthetic fossil shrimp comes from the famous Solnhofen lithographic limestone, in Eichstatt, Germany. This region is home to some of the world's most important fossil discoveries, including _Archaeopteryx_, the feathered dinosaur.
* Species: Aeger spinipes,Age: Late Jurassic, 148 million years old.
* The limestone plate measures about 13 inches or 33 cm by 10 inches or 26 cm, and the fossil shrimp is 4 inches (10 cm ) long (not including antennae). Weighs 1234 grams (2.11 lbs.).
* Both sides of the plate have a beautiful pattern of dendrites - a tree like pattern of crystallized minerals.