08959 - Fragment 0.753 g NWA Unclassified Diogenite Achondrite Meteorite Red Quartz one Platecarpus ptychodon tooth

one Platecarpus ptychodon tooth

about 270-280 Ma)

Warburg 1925

is an enormous sedimentarian basin represented mostly by a vast filling of phosphate sediments

It has a reddish

08959 - Fragment 0.753 g NWA Unclassified Diogenite Achondrite Meteorite Red Quartz one Platecarpus ptychodon toothBeautiful fragment of this Diogenite achondrite meteorite. Diogenites are a group of the HED meteorite clan, a type of achondritic stony meteorites. Diogenites are currently believed to originate from deep within the crust of the asteroid 4 Vesta, and as such are part of the HED meteorite clan. There are about 40 distinct members known. Diogenites are composed of igneous rocks of plutonic origin, having solidified slowly enough deep within Vesta's