Small Fossil Spiral Goniatite Ammonoid Cephalopods Marble Dish – Great for Collectors

Description

SIZE (Picture scale cube=1cm): 105 x 85 x 15mm

All of our Fossils are 100% Genuine Specimens & come with a Certificate of Authenticity

These spectacular pieces could make impressive serving dishes at parties, or simply displayed as wonderful ornaments. They are made from the famous Black Marble of Morocco, and have been carved out and polished around a genuine Goniatite fossil. These Goniatite sea creatures are Devonian age.

Goniatite are Ammonoid Cephalopods that form the order Goniatida, derived from the more primitive Anarcestida during the Middle Devonian some 390 million years ago. Goniatites survived the Late Devonian to flourish in the oceans during the Carboniferous and Permian only to become wiped out at the end of the Permian some 139 million years later. The order of Goniatida belongs to the squidlike class, Cephalopoda, and the phylum molluscs, Mollusca.

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.

WILL DIFFER TO PHOTO: The image shows an example of the single specimen you will receive. This will be picked from our stock box graded and with a size approximately within the size range indicated. It will not be the same specimen shown in the photo, the colours, shape, size and style may vary as with any natural item. To guarantee the specimen you receive will be representative by that in photo, we would always recommend the Actual as seen version of this item.