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4.5" Ammonite (Parkinsonia) Fossil - Dorset, England
This is a 4.5" fossil ammonite (Parkinsonia sp.) from Dorset England. Comes with an acrylic display stand.
Ammonites were predatory mollusks that resembled a squid with a shell. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells. They are more closely related to a living octopus, though the shells resemble that of a nautilus. Ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago and they barely survived several major extinction events. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.
Ammonites were predatory mollusks that resembled a squid with a shell. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells. They are more closely related to a living octopus, though the shells resemble that of a nautilus. Ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago and they barely survived several major extinction events. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.
SPECIES
Parkinsonia sp
LOCATION
Dorset, England
FORMATION
Upper Inferior Oolite
SIZE
4.5" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#129415
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