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A rare heteromorph ammonite fossil from the south of France. The species is Crioceratites nolani and the spines have been partially restored to show how it might have appeared in life Crioceratites is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea .
The firm's sister company, Canada Fossils Ltd., provides it with ammonites and other fossils. It is a member of the American Gem Trade Association . On September 27, 2007, an ammonite fossil 80 million years old and 60 cm (two ft) in diameter of ammonite made its debut at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Fossil of Parapuzosia seppenradensis, one of the largest known ammonites. The smallest ammonoid was Maximites from the Upper Carboniferous. Adult specimens reached only 10 mm (0.39 in) in shell diameter. [36] Few of the ammonites occurring in the lower and middle part of the Jurassic period reached a size exceeding 23 cm (9.1 in) in diameter.
Ammolite comes from the fossil shells of the Upper Cretaceous disk-shaped ammonites Placenticeras meeki and Placenticeras intercalare, and (to a lesser degree) the cylindrical baculite, Baculites compressus. Ammonites were cephalopods, that thrived in tropical seas until becoming extinct along with the dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic era.
Fossil shells of Echioceras raricostatum from Pierreclos (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris : Scientific classification; Domain:
Dactylioceras was a widespread genus of ammonites from the Lower Jurassic period, [1] approximately 180 million years ago . [2] and Like many other ammonites, the genus Dactylioceras is extremely important in biostratigraphy, being a key index fossil for identifying their region of the Jurassic. It had a nearly cosmopolitan distribution during ...
Soliclymenia is a genus of ammonites from the Late Devonian. S. paradoxa has an unusual, triangularly-coiled shell. Additional genera of ammonites with triangular shells are Kamptoclymenia, Trigonoshumardites, and Trigonogastrioceras. Soliclymenia semiparadoxa, which is known only from the holotype, is semi-triangular, the innermost whorls ...
Ancyloceras ammonites have a shell reaching a length of about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) and a width of about 7 centimetres (2.8 in). They are known as heteromorph shaped, with a partly uncoiled shell and the aperture directed toward the coiled part.