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📐 💎 Dimensions: 55 millimeters long x 45 wide x 16 thick
⚖️ Weight: 43.8 grams
✨ Finish: Polished
🔬 Treatment: None
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🌍Please note:
The spiral shape of the ammonite is a symbol of cycle, evolution and rebirth, which resonates with deep and introspective signs.
Age : Ammonites lived between approximately 400 and 65 million years ago.
Ammonites (or Ammonoidea) are an extinct subgroup of cephalopod mollusks . They populated the world's oceans and seas .
They were characterized by a more or less coiled univalve shell of which only the last chamber was occupied by the animal, the other chambers serving to control its flotation.
During the Devonian , they appear in the fossil record, but they disappear after the Cretaceous–Paleocene crisis .
📋 Mineralogical sheet:
Appearance
Ammonite Fossil
Category
Fossil / Marine cephalopod (mollusk)
Geological age
From 240 to 65 million years ago (Mesozoic)
Chemical composition
Mainly aragonite (CaCO₃), sometimes replaced by calcite, pyrite or silica during fossilization
Crystal system
Orthorhombic (Aragonite)
Hardness (Mohs)
3.5 – 4
Density
2.6 – 2.9
Color
Beige, brown, black, gray, sometimes iridescent (ammolite)
Glow
Matte to pearly, sometimes iridescent
Transparency
Opaque
Special feature
Spiral shell-shaped fossil, symbol of evolution and continuity
Main deposits
Madagascar, Canada, Morocco, England
Discovery / History
Ammonites are extinct marine mollusks; used as reference fossils to date rocks
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