Beautiful Collection of Ammonite fossils Specimens in Victorian Glass Dome.'SOLD'

A impressive collection of thirteen natural Madagascan perisphinctes ammonite fossils. 

Each being approx 8cm diameter mounted on iron rods and displayed in a tall original victorian glass dome.

These particular Ammonite fossils are from the Jurassic period (165 million years old) originated from Tulear in the southern part of Madagascar, an island of the east coast of Africa. Various different species of Ammonite are found in this remote location, and the seas were once full of these molluscs. Ammonites are an extinct group of marine molluscs in the sub-class of Ammonoidea of the class Cephlapod.

Height 51cm. 

In excellent order.