8.2" Plate of Devonian Ammonite Fossils - Morocco

Plate of Devonian Ammonite Fossils - Morocco #259694

This is a 8.2" wide plate of Devonian-aged ammonite fossils collected near Tafraout, Morocco. There are at least two species present on the plate as well as several unidentifiable fossils. The largest ammonite on the plate is 2.4" wide. These fossils have been prepped in high relief against the rock and cross sections of additional ammonites can be seen scattered throughout the limestone.

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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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