AN IRIDESCENT DAKOTAN AMMONITE
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AN IRIDESCENT DAKOTAN AMMONITE

Closed20 November 2012

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AN IRIDESCENT DAKOTAN AMMONITE
from the upper Cretaceous, Fox Hills Formation, (approx. 65 Mya) a specimen of Sphenodiscus sp. showing iridescence of red, green, orange and yellow.
11in. diameter

From an old Continental collection.

Specialist note

The ammonites are a group of animals that lived in the seas from the mid-Devonian (approximately 400 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous. The sequence of events that famously killed off the dinosaurs also drove the ammonites to extinction.