Beautiful large nacreous ammonite Jeletzkytes nebrascensis

Description

Species: Jeletzkytes nebrascensis
Age: Cretaceous, Maastrichtian
Locality: South Dakota, United States

Measurements: 11.5 x 9.3 cm
Weight: 3060 g

Exquisite Scaphitid macroconch from the Fox Hills Formation of the Western Interior Seaway. Beautiful shell, sutures and ornamentation.
Part of the ammonite shell was recrystallized in calcite (orange areas). This is completely natural, the ammonite is not restored. A very small part of the venter is missing (photo 6).

The stand is not included in the lot.

 

Additional information

Weight 3,5 kg