A CHUNK OF AMMONITE
This is a close up scan of the ammonite fossil fragment shown on the left...buttock of the butt rock featured in the previous post. I have no idea where it came from, or its era or species. As I previously stated, I bought it at an estate sale for 50 cents, more as memento to the man who had died and left his things to be pawed over by strangers. I passed his house quite often, he was a tall white haired man in an immaculate suit who kept an immaculate garden around an immaculate two story brick house, in an otherwise somewhat rundown neighborhood. He was a musician, a pianist, and played bells, of which he had a large set. He also collected fossils.
  
Edge on views of alleged ammonite.
I somehow suspect my 50 cent investment in the mystery of Life's history to be of Cretaceous vintage. Cretaceous time was somewhat of a heyday for ammonites and cephalopods in general..Polished Ammonites are very commonly sold in Malls and bookstores and are very commonly fakes. If you do buy one, at least you are supporting the family of a humble Moroccan craftsman. My fossil fragment is not so pretty, but I think it is real.
I got out one of my text books. It's a hundred and two years old, but they just don't do plates like this anymore:
 
There's a bit of family resemblance, don't you think?
5:15:46 PM 
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