8.1" Daisy Flower Ammonite (Choffaticeras) - Madagascar

Daisy Flower Ammonite (Choffaticeras) - Madagascar #256690

This is a nice, 8.1" wide example of a rarely seen ammonite (Choffaticeras) from Madagascar. Ammonites of this genus are often referred to as Margarite or "Daisy" flower ammonites. It has been cut in half and polished to reveal the amazing inner detail. Some of the chambers have been preserved as deep, spectacular crystal pockets. This is an extremely aesthetic and displayable ammonite fossil.

There is some gap fill and crack repair through each half of the ammonite. This listing includes both halves of the ammonite plus display stands.

Ammonites were predatory cephalopod mollusks that resembled squids with spiral shells. They are more closely related to living octopuses, though their shells resemble that of nautilus species. True ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago during the Triassic Period. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.

What an ammonite would have looked like while alive.

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