- Origin: Lyme Regis, England
- Size: H36cm W23cm D12cm
- Weight: 6.2 Kg
- Description: Combination of one large ammonite, smaller ammonites and part of a belemnite in the original matrix, on custom hand made stand.
- Additional information:
- Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world. Ammonites are extinct shelled cephalopods. All of them had a chambered shell that they used for buoyancy. Their geometry and beauty have captured the human imagination since at least Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) times and have given rise to many origin myths and beliefs about their magical and medicinal properties.
- Belemnoid, also called belemnite, member of an extinct group of cephalopods (animals related to the modern squid and octopus) that possessed a large internal shell. Most belemnoids were about the size of present-day squid, approximately 30 to 50 cm (12 to 20 inches) long. Belemnoids lived in ocean waters from the Early Devonian (about 416 million to 398 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous Period (65.5 million years ago).