Large Two Ammonite Pendant

Here is a beautifully crafted pendant featuring two real cut and polished ammonite fossils from Madagascar. This is a large and showy pendant measuring about 2 1/2 inches tall and was handcrafted. It's a very unique piece of jewelry.

Ammonites were predatory mollusks that resembled squids with shells. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells. Though their shells resemble that of a nautilus, they are actually more closely related to living octopuses. Ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago, barely surviving several major extinction events. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.

Artist's reconstruction of an ammonite, by Nobu Tamura

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