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ammonite | Ceratite | Germany
ammonite | Ceratite | Germany
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- Origin: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Size: H35cm W39cm D28cm
- Age: Muschelkalk, 243 to 235 million years old
- Description: Ceratite ammonite with a limestone layer formed by erosion processes on a custom-made stand.
- Additional information: Ammonites were hairy cephalopods that became extinct about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all over the world. Ammonites were extinct hairy cephalopods. All of them had a chamber-like housing that they used to regulate buoyancy. Their geometry and beauty have captured the human imagination since at least the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), giving rise to many origin myths and beliefs about their magical and medicinal properties.
