3.9" Ammonite (Parkinsonia) Fossil - Dorset, England

This is a 3.9" fossil ammonite (Parkinsonia rariocostata) from Dorset England. It comes with an acrylic display stand. This is a fairly rare species and comes out of an old collection.

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
Parkinsonia rariocostata
LOCATION
Freshwater, Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England
FORMATION
Inferior Oolite, Parkinsonia Zone
SIZE
3.9" wide
ITEM
#130208
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