3.4" Bumpy Douvilleiceras Ammonite - Madagascar

This is a nice Douvilleiceras ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar. This genus of ammonites has earned the local name "Tractor Ammonites", due to their distinctively bumpy surface and pronounced ridges making them resemble a tractor tire. It comes with an acrylic 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.
What an ammonite would have looked like while alive.
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SPECIES
Douvilleiceras mammilatum
LOCATION
Mahajanga Province, Madagascar
SIZE
3.4" wide
ITEM
#79123
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