3.2" Triassic Ammonite (Ceratites compressus) Fossil - Germany

Triassic Ammonite (Ceratites compressus) Fossil - Germany #243501

This is a 3.2" wide specimen of a Middle Triassic ammonite (Ceratites compressus). It comes from the the Muschelkalk Formation in Germany. It was found inside of a hard concretion and has been nicely prepared with a portion of rock remaining. It comes with an acrylic display stand.

There is a spot of gap fill restoration towards the interior spiral.

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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