Genuine Orthoceras/Gonatite Slice in Black Marble – Devonian Morocco Fossil

Description

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Specimen: Orthoceras/Gonatite Slice in Black Marble

Age: Devonian

Location: Erfoud, Sahara Desert, Morocco

Size (picture scale cube=1cm): 154 x 114 x 16mm (6.06 x 4.49 x 0.63 inches)

Orthoceras, meaning “Straight Horn”, was a cephalopod that lived more than 400 million years ago. Its name refers to the characteristic long, straight, conical shell these possessed. The soft body lived in the last open-ended segment at the large end of the conical shell, the preserved fossilised shell is all that remains.

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