4.8" Toarcian Ammonite (Lytoceras) Fossil - France

Toarcian Ammonite (Lytoceras) Fossil - France #196768

This is a fossil ammonite from the genus Lytoceras that was collected near Belmont, France. It is Toarcian (Jurassic period) in age, or approximately 180 million years old. French ammonites, especially this genus, are harder to come by than other varieties of ammonite. This particular specimen has remnants of the outer ridged shell and areas that display inner shell suture patterns.

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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