Goniatite

5.5"/24cm  x 7"/18cm 

Weight
4Kg

One Specimen at Different View Points

Description

Super Goniatite Ammonoid Fossil, Exceptional condition with replaced Calcite Chambers; occurring during the Fossilization process.

Genial History

Ammonoid Family, which includes nautilus still persisting in the Indian Ocean & Pacific oceans, all other Ammonoids including these Goniatites died out in a great mass marine extinction approximately 74 million years ago, just about 11 mill yrs before the mass Dinosaur extinction at the end of the cretaceous Period. Goniatites related to other members of the Cephalopod group such as octopus, Cuttle fish & squids.

Condition Report

This remarkable Cephalopod with very distinctive Goniotitic Suture patterning has been treated after excavation and preparation with a highly polished finish to enhance the great detail of the Calcite replaced chambers of the once living Cephalopod.

Genus

Goniatite Ammonoid Sp.

Location

Erfoud Arfoud, Rissanni, Morocco,

Geological Age

Paleozoic Era, Devonian Period, around 400 to 350 million years ago

Information

Fossil Devonian Fossil Marble originates from the Western Sahara Desert, southern east Morocco.

The Black Fossil stone is from a small enclave named Tazzerine.

The Brown Fossil stone is from the region of Erfoud, one of the outposts before the Sahara Desert waste stretch out southward, deep into the African Continent, both places reside in the province of Errachidia.

This resource was discovered commercially in the 1970s and has been producing fine Fossil Specimens since that time.

The Fossils Inclusions in the Black stone are predominately Orthocerasa type of Cuttle Fish, Marine invertebrate. The seas long ago teemed with these extraordinary creatures, reaching lengths up to approximately 1 meter in average; some animals even larger have been recorded.

The Brown stone contains the both Orthoceras and Ammonoids, which include Nautiloids and Ammonites.

Most of the creatures died out in a mass extinction some 74 million years ago, approximately the Campanian Epoch, from the Late Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era. Some Ammonite Species have been recorded up to and over seven feet in diameter.