2.4" Fossil Ammonite (Mammites) - Goulmima, Morocco

This is a bumpy, 2.4" wide fossil ammonite (Mammites) from near Jbel Timetrout, Morocco. This genus of ammonite has rows of raised nodes around its shell.

Comes with an acrylic 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
Mammites nodosoides
LOCATION
Jbel Timetrout, Morocco
SIZE
2.4" wide
CATEGORY
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ITEM
#119410
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