551 Split Pair 400myo Morocco PYRITE Ammonite BIG 1.25
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551 Split Pair 400myo Morocco PYRITE Ammonite BIG 1.25" Imagine holding in your hand a 110 million year old fossil. Some ammonites are much older than that. Even older than the dinosaurs. Oceans at the time were teeming with life. Predators were everywhere. And it was a live fast, or die hard world for the ammonites. In fact, ammonites closely resemble modern squids, octopus and the chambered nautilus. Ammonites were carnivores as well. Fossils were once found only in museums - NOW you can OWN one!!! You can hold in your hand a part of the ancient fossil record from the time the dinosaurs roamed the earth. Description: 400 Million Years Old Split Pair Pyrite Ammonite Weight (lbs): <.1 # Weight (kg): <.1 kg Size (inches): 1.25" x 1" Size (cm): 3cm x 2.25cm Mine location: Atlas Mountains, Morocco Item Number:551 Retail value: $65 ---------------------------------------------------------- Facts about ammonites - Closest living relative - Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and it's closest cousin the Nautilus. First appeared - in shallow seas 415 million year ago. Extinct - in a catoclysmic event in the Cretaceous, will the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago. Began life - less than 1 mm in diameter. About the size of a period in this sentence. But they grew fast. Females - reported to grow 400% bigger than males. Shells -
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