5.1" Fossil Ammonite (Cleviceras) Cluster - Sandsend, England

Fossil Ammonite (Cleviceras) Cluster - Sandsend, England #176348

This is a 5.1" tall cluster of ammonites (Cleviceras elegans) from the Sandsend, England. The base of the rock has been cut flat allowing it to display nicely on a flat surface without a 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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