4" Polished Shloenbacchia Ammonite With Stone Base

This is a beautiful, polished ammonite specimen collected near Khenifra, Morocco. It's of the genus Shloenbacchia and the inner chambers filled with crystals have been exposed by the polishing. One cool aspect of this piece is the rock still attached to the ammonite fossil has been sculpted to create a natural base for the ammonite to display on. The ammonite itself is 4" wide and the entire piece is 4.4" tall.

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.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Shloenbacchia sp.
LOCATION
Sidi yahya osaad, Khenifra, Morocco
SIZE
4" wide, entire piece 4.4" tall
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ITEM
#35312
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