3.9" Cut & Polished, Hematite Replaced Ammonite Fossil - Morocco

This is a beautiful, hematite replaced ammonite fossil collected near Goulmima, Morocco. It's been sliced in half and polished to a mirror finish, revealing the beautiful inner chamber detail. Comes with an acrylic display stand for each half.

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.
What an ammonite would have looked like while alive.

Hematite is a fairly common mineral, typically responsible for the red-brown colorations found in other minerals and rocks. Its chemical composition is Fe2O3, occasionally containing small amounts of titanium (variable formula (Fe,Ti)2O3). Much of the time, non-crystalline hematite specimens are the result of a transformation from limonite following loss of water.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Unidentified
LOCATION
Oujda, Morocco
SIZE
3.9" wide
CATEGORY
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ITEM
#103819
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