Mounted Ammonite | Large | Madagascar
Mounted Ammonite | Large | Madagascar
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- Origin: Madagascar
- Size: H41cm W37cm D19cm
- Description: An ammonite on a handmade stand that highlights the spiral shape so typical of ammonites.
- Additional information: Ammonites were cup-shaped cephalopods that became extinct about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all over the world. Ammonites are extinct, shelled cephalopods. They all had a chambered shell that they used for buoyancy.
- Their geometry and beauty have captured the human imagination since at least the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), giving rise to numerous origin myths and beliefs about their magical and medicinal properties.