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Rainbow Cleoniceras Silver Ammonite Fossil Polished Natural Collector Specimen
This small Rainbow Cleoniceras Silver Ammonite Fossil from Madagascar is the perfect size to be set or wire wrapper into a unique custom jewelry piece!
It is 1.4 inches or just 36 mm by 1.25 inch or 30 mm and 13 mm at its thickest.
This is an Opalized Ammonite from Creataceous Period about 30-60 million years old.
Ammonites are extinct mollusks related to the modern squid, octopus and Chambered Nautilus. These creatures died out at the close of the Cretaceous Period, about sixty-five million years ago. Their existence on earth lasted for about 330 million years Their hard shells are found as fossils in many places throughout the world.
Ammonites were first called Ammon's Stones because of their resemblance to the ram's horns of Ammon, the ancient God of Life and Procreation.
