2.85" Cretaceous Ammonite (Vascoceras) Fossil - Nigeria

Cretaceous Ammonite (Vascoceras) Fossil - Nigeria #207464

This is a beautiful, 2.85" wide ammonite fossil of the species Vascoceras costatum, collected from Gombe in north-eastern Nigeria. It comes from Lower Turonian age deposits, making it approximately 93 million years old. The rock has been meticulously prepped away from this rare ammonite specimen.

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.