12" Ammonite (Euhoploceras) With Belemnites - Dorset, England

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This is a very displayable piece from Dorset, England featuring a large, 12" wide Euhoploceras marginatum ammonite and a cluster of naturally associated Belemnites (Passaloteuthis sp). The entire block of limestone measures 18.2" high, is nicely prepared and displays well standing up on a flat surface. The belemnites, the largest of which is 7" long have been polished.
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.

Belemnites are probably the most well known extinct cephalopod after the ammonites. They lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are fairly common fossils found throughout the world. They had a hard, internal, cone shaped structure that is often preserved as a fossil though it is not technically a shell. They had 10 arms but unlike modern squid these arms had small hooks instead of suckers.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Euhoploceras marginatum & Passaloteuthis sp.
LOCATION
Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England
FORMATION
Inferior Oolite
SIZE
Ammonite 12" Wide, Entire Piece 18.2"
ITEM
#63380
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