1.6" Ammonite (Pleuroceras) Fossil - Burgebrach, Germany

This is a Pleuroceras spinatum ammonite fossil from Buttenhaim, Germany with a dark brown shell. These ammonites are Lower Jurassic in age, approximately 185 million years old. It's partially exposed inside of a concretion that was cracked open.

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.
What an ammonite would have looked like while alive.
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SPECIES
Pleuroceras spinatum
LOCATION
Eierberg Hill, Burgebrach, Germany
SIZE
1.6" wide
ITEM
#77238
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