Large Cut & Polished Ammonite Pair | 20.5 × 17cm | Lower Cretaceous | Madagascar framed_insects and macro photography

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from the Red Sea and East Africa through to the Pacific Islands

This individual is distinguished by a naturally curved tail

Family: Cerambycidae (Long-Horned Beetles)

Large Cut & Polished Ammonite Pair | 20.5 × 17cm | Lower Cretaceous | Madagascar framed_insects and macro photography115 Million Years of Natural Architecture Ammonites were cephalopod molluscs relatives of today's nautilus and squid that dominated the world's oceans for over 300 million years before their extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. Named after the ram horned Egyptian god Ammon, whose coiled horns their shells resemble, they ranged in size from a few millimetres to over two metres in diameter. This matched pair, sourced from Madagascar and