14.7" Honey-Orange Ammonite (Argonauticeras) - Befandriana, Madagascar

Honey-Orange Ammonite (Argonauticeras) - Befandriana, Madagascar #192187

This is not one of your typical Madagascar ammonites, it is a rare Argonauticeras from Befandriana in Northern Madagascar. The chambers are filled with a gorgeous, honey/orange colored agate. It's been sliced in half and polished to reveal the inner chamber detail. A couple of the chambers are hollow and lined with small crystals.

One half of the ammonite is include and it 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.