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Ammonite (pair)

Madagascar

$360

Weight: 441 g Dimensions: 9.5 × 7.5 × 5 cm Age: Cretaceous A natural ammonite sawn in half and then polished to reveal its magnificent internal chambers. The various chambers display shades of brown, caramel and black, with highly contrasting mineralised areas. Ammonites were marine cephalopod molluscs that are now extinct, close relatives of today’s nautiluses. They lived in the seas for several hundred million years before becoming extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, around 66 million years ago. Specimen sold as a pair – both halves come from the same ammonite.