- Origin: Madagascar
- Age: Jurassic, 205-135 million years ago
- Size: H25cm W44cm D21cm
- Description: Finely preserved Kranaosphinctes rabei sp. from the Jurassic with most of shell still intact, mounted on custom stand.
- Additional information: Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world. Their geometry and beauty have captured the human imagination since Middle Stone Age times and have given rise to many origin myths and beliefs about their magical and medicinal properties.