Bottle Clasp Ammonite (Perisphinctes)
| Product number | 1030005203 |
| EAN | 4034113049683 |
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Almost too beautiful to give away:
This bottle stopper is crowned by a real ammonite!
The approx. 150 million year old fossil comes from Madagascar; diameter of the fossilization approx. 4.5cm, total length wine stopper approx. 10.5cm.
Perisphinctes are a genus of ammonites, which lived in the middle to late Jurassic epoch. Ammonites were sea-dwelling cephalopods, primitive squids. From the ammonites mostly only the shells are preserved as fossils. These have the form of a flat, rolled up spiral.