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Bargain, 7.2" Cut & Polished Ammonite Fossil - Madagascar
Here is a 7.2" wide, cut and polished Cleoniceras ammonite fossil quarried in the Mahajanga Province of Madagascar. It's Early Cretaceous (Albian Stage) in age, or approximately 110 million years old.
The specimen is bargain priced because most of the chambers were filled with mud prior to fossilization.
The specimen is bargain priced because most of the chambers were filled with mud prior to fossilization.
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.
SPECIES
Cleoniceras
LOCATION
Ambatolafia, Mahajanga Province, Madagascar
SIZE
7.2" wide (each)
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#73958
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