Rare, 7.8" Cretaceous Ammonite (Hoplites) Fossil - France

Rare, Cretaceous Ammonite (Hoplites) Fossil - France #177614

This is a very large example of a rare, Early Cretaceous ammonite (Hoplites sp.) from France. It's 7.8" wide, has been prepped completely free from the rock it was found in and comes with an acrylic/metal stand to assist with presentation.

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.

More about ammonites