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Parapuzosia seppenradensis Ammonite Sculptures

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Parapuzosia seppenradensis Ammonite Sculptures

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Location: Lüdinghausen, Coesfeld, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Seppenrade Church Square – Rorup Alpaca Farm loop from Seppenrade

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2. Old Parish Garden Seppenrade – Wolfsschlucht Seppenrade loop from Seppenrade

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3. Dortmund-Ems Canal – Kökelsumer Farm Café loop from Lüdinghausen

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Thomas B.

November 11, 2020

Seppenrade -

It adorns coats of arms, flags and seals. It was made in marzipan or in bread form, and it is a cast in the middle of the village and in the largest natural history museum in the world - the "Parapuzosia seppenradensis". Behind this name is the world's largest ammonite, which was found exactly 120 years ago, on February 22, 1895, by Heinrich Ettmann in a quarry near the Grube farm in the Leversum peasantry. It is around 1.80 meters tall, weighs over 3.5 tons and is around 80 million years old. (Westphalian news)

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September 16, 2024

The largest ammonite in the world was found in Seppenrade in 1895. On February 22, 1895, Heinrich Ettmann discovered the fossil in a quarry near the Grube farm in the Leversum farming community.

Prof. Dr. Hermann Landois bought the giant ammonite with a diameter of 1.80 meters for 125 marks for the then Westphalian Provincial Museum of Natural History in Münster (now the LWL Museum of Natural History). At the time, six horses were needed to transport the fossil, which weighed 3.5 tons, was 1.74 meters tall and 40 cm thick. Even the floor in the museum had to be reinforced specially for the colossus. The impressive specimen can still be viewed today in the LWL Museum. Its scientific name is Parapuzosia seppenradensis, named after the place where it was found in Seppenrade. Numerous copies (casts) were made of the Seppenrade ammonite, which were subsequently sent to natural history museums all over the world.

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Location: Lüdinghausen, Coesfeld, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Parapuzosia seppenradensis Ammonite Sculptures

1. Seppenrade Church Square – Rorup Alpaca Farm loop from Seppenrade

2. Old Parish Garden Seppenrade – Wolfsschlucht Seppenrade loop from Seppenrade

3. Dortmund-Ems Canal – Kökelsumer Farm Café loop from Lüdinghausen

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