Sunday Special Ammonite PAIR Deep Crystals 110myo FOSSIL XXL 152mm 5.9" 9286vv

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Weight (lbs): 1.50 # Weight (gm): 600 grams Size (inches): 5.9" x 5.1" Size (mm): 152mm x 130mm Description: Ammonite Pair Split, Cut and Polished. LESS THAN 1 in 100 is a black ammonite. Very RARE and highly prized by collectors. These were found only 1 in 1000 ammonites. However you are in luck as they have a new find in Madagascar. These will NOT last. So you can pick one up for a better price. As I have predicted very few large Black ammonites came in the last shipment. Only small ones, which usually means that they are about to get past the Black Ammonite level. So they will be hard to get next year, and the price will surely go up in the next few years.<br>Sunday Special Ammonite PAIR Deep Crystals 110myo FOSSIL XXL 152mm 5.9" 9286vv<br>Sunday Special Ammonite PAIR Deep Crystals 110myo FOSSIL XXL 152mm 5.9" 9286vv<br>Click images to enlarge<br>Description<br>Imagine holding in your hand a 110 million year old fossil.  Some ammonites are much older than that, up to 450 million years old.  Even older than the dinosaurs.  Oceans at the time were teeming with life.  Predators were everywhere.  And it was a live fast, or die hard world for the ammonites.  In fact, ammonites closely resemble modern squids, octopus and the chambered nautilus.  Ammonites were carnivores as well.<br>Fossils were<br>once<br>found only in museums - NOW you can OWN one!!!  You can hold in your hand a part of the ancient fossil record from the time the dinosaurs roamed the earth.<br>This is the NEW batch from Madagascar.  I brought in for TUCSON SHOW with some of the best color and deepest cavities/pockets around, excellent batch!!!  Super nice crystals, absolutely the best I have seen in years.<br>Description:<br>Ammonite Pair Split, Cut and Polished<br>.  LESS THAN 1 in 100 is a black ammonite.  Very RARE and highly prized by collectors.    These were found only 1 in 1000 ammonites.  However you are in luck as they have a new find in Madagascar.  These will NOT last.  So you can pick one up for a better price.<br>As I have predicted very few large Black ammonites came in the last shipment.  Only small ones, which usually means that they are about to get past the Black Ammonite level.  So they will be hard to get next year, and the price will surely go up in the next few years.<br>Cleoniceras<br>- These most colorful ammonites come from Madagascar, off the coast of Africa.  Cleoniceras is the most common type in Madagascar.  99% of the ammonites found in Madagascar are this species, with a smooth shell and angled segments.  The animal actually lived in the very last segments.  Variations in price are due to color differences and how many crystal cavities (or open 'cave like' structures) in the segments.  On average 110 million years old.<br>Weight<br>(lbs):<br>1.50 #<br>Weight<br>(gm):<br>600 grams<br>Size (inches):<br>5.9" x  5.1"<br>Size (mm):<br>152mm x 130mm<br>Mine location:<br>Tulear, Madagascar<br>Item Number:<br>9286  ht<br>Retail value:<br>$250 in stores<br>----------------------------------------------------------<br>Facts about ammonites -<br>Closest living relative - Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and it's closest cousin the Nautilus.<br>First appeared - in shallow seas 450 million year ago.<br>Extinct - in a catoclysmic event in the Cretaceous, with the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.<br>Began life - less than 1 mm in diameter.  About the size of a period in this sentence.  But they grew fast.<br>Females - reported to grow 400% bigger than males.<br>Shells - comprised of chambers growing as the ammonite did.  Making 13 new chambers each year.  The ammonite lived in the last section, called the living segment.<br>Medieval Europe - Ammonites were thought to be petrified snakes.  They were called "snakestones" or "serpent stones".  Ammonites were said to be evidence for the actions of St. Hilda and St. Patrick - who drove the snakes out of Ireland.  In ancient times, traders would carve the face of a snake into the wide end of the ammonite fossil and sell them to the public.<br>The name Ammonite - comes from their spiral shape.  The fossilized shells somewhat resembled tightly coiled rams' horns.  Pliny the Elder (79 A.D. near Pompeii) called these fossils - ammonis cornua ("horns of Ammon")