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AGADIR AMMONITE ( MEGA MONSTER SIZE ) - Agadir, Morocco CRETACEOUS PERIOD: 65 million years ago This is, hands down, the largest and most impressive rough ammonite specimen I have ever seen anywhere. Specimens like this are priceless and extremely rare to find even near this size and of this nice a shape. The pictures with the hands indicate the real magnitude of this enormous creature. This superb grade ammonite is solid stone featuring the fascinating ridged surface of the ancient creature's shell and was excavated from the coastal Moroccan village of Agadir.
The animal that lived in this fossil shell looked something like a squid or an octopus, with tentacles for grasping its food and moving around the ocean floor. Some ammonite species have been found up to 6 feet across in size, while others never got bigger than a dime. With its three-dimensional form and texture, this ammonite specimen will bring any event to a halt when displayed. It is in a class all its own, not only desired by collectors, but treasured by interior designers and architects alike for incorporating into a stunning display. Natural color and wonderfully detailed. An exquisite specimen for such a rare size and an absolute "show-stopper"! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! 25" wide x 22" high x 7" thick SOLD AM1403 INCLUDES STAND Actual Item - One Only |
AMMONOIDS
evolved from nautiloids in the early Devonian period, about 400 million
years ago. They were abundant in world seas for the next 370 million
years. They suddenly vanished at the end of the Cretaceous period. These
extinct marine animals, which thrived in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic
Eras, some 400 to 65 million years ago, were cephalopods, and are thus
related to squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and the chambered nautilus.
Ammonites were able to swim, thanks to the unique construction of their
shell, which was divided into a series of air chambers. The air in the
chambers provided buoyancy for the animal to float; like modern
cephalopods, they probably moved through the water using jet propulsion.
Because ammonites lived exclusively in marine environments, their
presence also indicates the location of prehistoric seas.