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The fossils pictured are mined and finished in Morocco before being imported to the United States. The size and weight of the item is approximated. These fossils are widely used as decorative pieces.  Plaques can be mounted to a wall or used as a centerpiece.  These fossils were formed by nature so each piece is unique.  Items shown are subject to prior sale.  Visit the showroom or email for current available specimens.

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Some of the earliest fossils are those of the arthropods, which are found from the Cambrian period onward. These are the joint-legged animals that have shells of chitin-today’s insects, spiders, crabs, and lobsters. In cambrian times they were represented by the Trilobites and other strange creatures.

TRILOBITES - Dallmanitina socialis

Generally unspecialized marine animals with bodies divided into a large number of similar segments in the form of an exoskeleton. Flourishing during the lower paleozoic, they started to wane during Devonian times and by the end of the Permian period were extinct.

ORTHOCERAS

These prehistoric ancestors of the modern squid were very active sea animals who swam in warm and shallow waters by pushing water out of their body cavities. The Orthoceras was a carnivorous, shelled cephalopod who at times grew to be 6 feet long. During the Ordovician Period 500 million years ago, there was a great submergence of the lands with the spread of shallow seas. This environment spawned the evolution of the Orthoceras.

AMMONITES - Gyroceratites gracilis

These extinct sea animals first began to appear approximately 570 million years ago dung the Precambrian Period. The evolution of the Lower Devonian (Paleozoic Period) ammonoids took place primarily 350-400 million year ago. They belong to a class of sea animals called cephalopods which are the most intelligent kind of mollusks. These shells were divided into chambers, with the animal living in the chamber next to the opening. These mollusks had both eyes and tentacles and ranged in size from ½ inch to 6 foot. The Ammonite is the ancestor of the present day sea snail.