Large 8 Inch Ammonite - Great Display

Here is a large Jurassic aged ammonite fossil from Madagascar. It's approximately 8 inches wide, 3 inches thick and weights over 5 pounds. It has been lightly polished and displays very well.

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
Artist's reconstruction of an ammonite, by Nobu Tamura
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SPECIES
Perisphinctes
LOCATION
Near Sakaraha, Madagascar
FORMATION
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SIZE
8" wide
ITEM
#1961
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