JURASSIC AMMONITE GROUP (FINE DISPLAY PIECE) - 160 million years old - Wiltshire
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A fine display piece
160 million years old
Oxford Clay
Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire.
An attractive group of ammonites contained in a claystone nodule. These empty shells accumulated on the Jurassic sea floor, were piled up by undersea currents, and then preserved for millions of years when the sea floor mud turned to stone.
Ammonites are extinct marine shellfish that were common during the age of the dinosaurs, a period of the Earth's history when much of England was submerged beneath warm seas.
The fossils have been revealed by painstaking preparatory work.
Presented in a lidded gift box.
Size: 17 x 11 x 4 centimetres
Weight: 1.22 kilograms
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