1.5" Ammonite Fossil - Boulemane, Morocco

Ammonite Fossil - Boulemane, Morocco #122421

This is 1.5", unidentified fossil ammonite from Morocco. It is still partially imbedded in the stone in which it was found. The rock has sections of other ammonites and a number of unidentified fossils.

Ammonites were predatory mollusks that resembled a squid with a shell. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells. They are more closely related to a living octopus, though the shells resemble that of a nautilus. True ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.

What an ammonite would have looked like while alive.