Large Cut & Polished Ammonite Pair | 18.5 × 15.5cm | Lower Cretaceous | Madagascar jewellery making genuine ammonite fossils

genuine ammonite fossils

Material: Quartzite

and the modified first legs that function as venom-delivering fangs

often encountered in large flocks

Large Cut & Polished Ammonite Pair | 18.5 × 15.5cm | Lower Cretaceous | Madagascar jewellery making genuine ammonite fossils115 Million Years of Natural Architecture Ammonites were cephalopod molluscs relatives of today's nautilus and squid that dominated the world's oceans for over 300 million years before their extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. Named after the ram horned Egyptian god Ammon, whose coiled horns their shells resemble, they ranged in size from a few millimetres to over two metres in diameter. This matched pair, sourced from Madagascar and