2.8" Jurassic Ammonite (Liparoceras) Fossil - England

This is an ammonite fossil of the species Liparoceras cheltiense, collected near Gloucestershire, England. It's Jurassic (Lower Lias) or approximately 185 million years old. The ammonite is very wide, and preserves many of the distinctive bumps/nodes along it's shell.
It comes with an acrylic display stand.

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.
What an ammonite would have looked like while alive.

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DETAILS
SPECIES
Liparoceras cheltiense
LOCATION
Gloucestershire, England
FORMATION
Lower Lias
SIZE
2.8" wide ammonite
CATEGORY
ITEM
#113150
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