Description

Agatized Ammonite Polished Fossil ‘Cleoniceras Cleon’ Cretaceous

Museum Quality Archeological Artifacts
Exceptional Sale (Private Collection)
Authentic Cretaceous Period (150 million years ago)
Agatized Polished Ammonite Fossil ‘Cleoniceras Cleon’
Size : 124 mm x 106 x 27 mm
Weight : 375 gram !
Origin Madagascar

The name ammonite, from which the scientific term is derived, was inspired by the shape of their fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly coiled rams horns. Pliny the Elder (d.79 AD near Pompeii) called fossils of these animals ‘ammonis cornua’ (horns of Ammon) because the Egyptian god Ammon (Amun) was typically depicted wearing rams’ horns.

Kingdom : Animalia
Phylum : Mollusca
Class : Cephalopoda
Order : Ammonitida
Genus : Cleoniceras

Exceptional fossil
Extremely well preserved collector’s item