7.1" Cretaceous Ammonite (Mammites) With Metal Stand - Morocco

Cretaceous Ammonite (Mammites) With Metal Stand - Morocco #164233

This is a 7.1" wide, Late Cretaceous ammonite (Mammites sp.) collected near Goulmima, Morocco. These ammonites have rows of raised bumps or nodes around their outer surface.

This ammonite comes with the pictured custom metal display stand. When on the stand, this specimen is about 11.9" tall.

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. True ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago. 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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