5.5" Jurassic Ammonite (Quenstedticeras) Fossil - Russia

Jurassic Ammonite (Quenstedticeras) Fossil - Russia #181242

This is an ammonite fossil of the genus Quenstedticeras sp. that was collected from a Middle Jurassic deposit along the banks of the Volga River near Saratov, Russia. One side of the ammonite fossil has been exposed from the rock it was found in.

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.

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