3.5" Jurassic Ammonite (Parkinsonia) Fossil - Sengenthal, Germany

Jurassic Ammonite (Parkinsonia) Fossil - Sengenthal, Germany #177610

This is a beautiful, 3.5" wide Parkinsonia ammonite from Sengenthal, Germany. This Jurassic-age ammonite has been carefully exposed from the rock it was found in, with a section of rock left in place on one side of the ammonite. 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.

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