7.6" Iridescent Ammonite (Deshayesites) Fossil

Iridescent Ammonite (Deshayesites) Fossil #301341

This is a beautiful 7.6" wide Deshayesites imitator ammonite fossil from the Lower Cretaceous deposits of Saratov, Russia. It has been meticulously removed from the rock it was found in, with portions of the iridescent shell left intact.

It comes with a display stand. There is some repair/restoration on each side of the ammonite towards the center spiral. It's likely that these repaired spots on each side are composite ammonites.

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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