8.2" Fossil Ammonite (Dactylioceras) Cluster - Sandsend, England

Fossil Ammonite (Dactylioceras) Cluster - Sandsend, England #176299

This is an impressive, 8.2" wide cluster of Dactylioceras ammonites from the Sandsend, England. You don't typically get these ammonites in dense clusters like this. Countless hours of preparation work went into exposing the individual ammonites from the hard rock with mechanical tools.

There are over 30 ammonites present of both Dactylioceras toxophorum and Dactylioceras gracile. Most of the ammonites are around 1" wide, but the largest is 2.8"

This piece comes out of the collection of the late Jeff Mulroy, a renown collector and preparitor of Yorkshire fossils.

Comes with a 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.

More about ammonites