2.9" Pyrite Encrusted Ammonite Fossil - Russia

Pyrite Encrusted Ammonite Fossil - Russia #181224

This is a pyritized ammonite fossil that is encrusted in pyrite, collected from a Middle Jurassic deposit along the banks of the Volga River near Saratov, Russia. You can feel the heft of the iron pyrite in and on the specimen when you hold it in your hand.

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.

More about ammonites