This is a beautiful Horned Ammonite fossil from Madagascar.

Douvilleiceras Ammonite

Age: 110.5 myo

Ammonites are an extinct group of marine invertebrate in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. The name "ammonite", from which the scientific term is derived, was inspired by the spiral shape of their fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly coiled rams horns. These molluscs are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e. octopus, squid and cuttlefish) than they are to shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species. The earliest Ammonites appear during the mid Devonian age roughly 350 million years ago, and the last species died out during the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago

Length: 60mm
Width: 50mm
Height: 25mm
Weight: 66g

Douvilleiceras is a genus of ammonites from the Middle to Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found worldwide, in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Wikipedia

Subclass: Ammonites

Order: Ammonitida

Phylum: Mollusca

Rank: Genus

Family: Douvilleiceratidae

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