Description
Location: Agadir, Morocco
Weight: 1 Pound 10.7 Ounces
Dimensions: 5.2 Inches Long, 4.2 Inches Wide, 2 Inches Thick
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360 million years old.
Acanthoceras Ammonite
Ammonoids were marine creatures that thrived from the Devonian through the Cretaceous periods. The name of these cephalopods comes from the "ram's horn" shape of their shells because the Egyptian god Amun or Ammon had a pair of ram's horns. Despite their similarity to modern Nautiloids, Ammonoids' closest living relatives are probably octopi, squid, and cuttlefish.
Ammonoid shells were divided into chambers by divisions called septa. The attachment of the septa to the shell exterior created suture patterns that are used to classify Ammonoids. The "Goniatitic" zigzag pattern of smooth lobes and saddles is characteristic of the earlier Goniatites. The latter Ammonites had a more intricate fern-like suture pattern.
