Huge Cretaceous Ammonite
Very Impressive and massive 2 ft. Ammonite. Don't know the species or orgin. Not mine, but I have found several this size in East Africa (too heavy to bring home so currently live in Nairobi at the University, and another 90 lb monster I hauled up a 100 ft. almost vertical cliff. Young and healthy in those days, and still thought I had died when I reached the top. The crazy things we collectors do while following our muse.
Ammonites departed the oceans along with the dinosaurs etc. after the comet/astroid struck in the Yucatan. Although their kissing cousin, the Nautiloids survived to today in the charming chambered Nautilus. The Monterey Aquarium has a remarkable huge tank full of live magical living fossils.
Huge Cretaceous Ammonite
Very Impressive and massive 2 ft. Ammonite. Don't know the species or orgin. Not mine, but I have found several this size in East Africa (too heavy to bring home so currently live in Nairobi at the University, and another 90 lb monster I hauled up a 100 ft. almost vertical cliff. Young and healthy in those days, and still thought I had died when I reached the top. The crazy things we collectors do while following our muse.
Ammonites departed the oceans along with the dinosaurs etc. after the comet/astroid struck in the Yucatan. Although their kissing cousin, the Nautiloids survived to today in the charming chambered Nautilus. The Monterey Aquarium has a remarkable huge tank full of live magical living fossils.