Asteroceras Obtusum Ammonite

Bedrock Plate
9.2"/23.5cm length 
5"/12.5 Width
1.2"/3cm thick

Ammonites sp
2.3"/6cm diameter

Weight
1.231Kg

Description

A Highly prized British Ammonite; the Asteroceras Obtusum, a Rare Species of Ammonite.

Few are found of this preservation and quality

Displaying good whorls [chambered coiling] definition with fascinating partial Suture Patterning the protective under shell layering of the prehistoric cephalopod, squid like creature, that once lived in the last chambers of the shell

The original Bedrock has been sympathetically prepared by professional fossil preparator to allow the Ammonite to become the centre piece of this spectacular fossil display also prepared to allow Free standing mode

Rare and Large Asteroceras Obtusum Ammonite Fossil

Genus

Asteroceras Obtusum Ammonite sp.

Other Nomenclature

Asteroceras Obtusum ammonites, British Ammonites, British Fossils, Sinemurian Ammonites, Pliensbachian Ammonites, Mesozoic Fossils, Jurassic Ammonites, Jurassic Fossils, Lyme Regis Ammonites, Lyme Regis Fossils

Geologic Age

Mesozoic Era, Lower [Early] Jurassic, Upper Sinemurian; Lower Lias Formation, around 189-196 million years ago

Location

Lower Lias, Obtusum Zone, Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK