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Dactylioceras
Age:Early Jurassic, approximately 160 million years old
Size:Typical diameter 7cm This specimen is 90mm long x 75mm wide x 20mm deepKey FeaturesThis is a type of Ammonite, that would have been very common in the Jurassic seas that once covered Britain. Ammonites though now extinct, would have probably been similar to modern Nautilus in their habits, being active carnivores that catch their prey with long tentacles.
In mediaeval times ammonites were thought to represent coiled snakes that had been petrified and they often had snakes heads carved on to them !
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