4.8" Polished Orthoceras and Goniatite Bookends - Morocco

This is a pair of gorgeous bookends made out of polished rock containing 400 million year old fossils of a straight cephalopod, Orthoceras regulare and Goniatites. An area where the larger Goniatite fossil is located has been polished so that its chambered structure can easily be seen.

Orthoceras is an extinct "straight" cephalopod that lived during the Devonian period nearly 400 million years ago. Like other cephalopods they lived inside of their shell, had tentacles they could use to grab food and used jet propulsion, squirting water to move. Rock containing their abundant fossils is mined near Erfoud, Morocco and is commonly shaped and polished into decorative pieces.