3.2" Fossil Triassic Ammonite (Ceratites) - Germany

This is an unusual, Middle Triassic ammonite (Ceratites) from the Muschelkalk Formation in Germany. It's 3.2" across and has been prepared almost entirely free of the rock that it was found in. It comes from an old collection and has some ID numbers written in pen on the back.

It comes with an acrylic display 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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DETAILS
SPECIES
Ceratites sp.
LOCATION
Schoningen, Germany
FORMATION
Muschelkalk Formation
SIZE
3.2" diameter
ITEM
#117152
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