1.8" Jurassic Fossil Ammonite (Peronoceras) - United Kingdom

This is a 1.8" wide ammonite (Peronoceras fibulatum) collected from North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. The ammonite has been prepared half-free from the rock it was recovered from. Half of the fossil is exposed and presents an astonishingly well-preserved face of the specimen. The other face is covered by stone. It comes with an acrylic display stand.

Ammonites were predatory cephalopod mollusks that resembled squids with spiral shells. They are more closely related to living octopuses, though their shells resemble that of nautilus species. True ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago during the Triassic Period. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.

What an ammonite would have looked like while alive.
What an ammonite would have looked like while alive.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Peronoceras fibulatum
LOCATION
North Yorkshire Coast, United Kingdom
FORMATION
Whitby Formation
SIZE
Ammonite: 1.8", Rock: 2.2"
ITEM
#219972
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