12.7" Large, Jurassic Ammonite (Parkinsonia) Fossil - England

Large, Jurassic Ammonite (Parkinsonia) Fossil - England #206848

This is a massive 12.7" Parkinsonia ammonite from Dorset England. It is Jurassic in age and has excellent shell preservation on one side of the specimen, with only minimal damage from extraction and preparation. Overall a very cool display piece.

Comes with a metal 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.

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