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Is this ammonite real?


Chinliang

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Hi,

 

I will like to seek advise regard this ammoniteis it fake. 

 

As the shape and structure is something I never come across.

 

I do not have any information where the ammonite was it found, so I post it here and hope someone ever come across it and can advise.

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It is a real ammonite. What you are seeing is the hardened sediment and crystals that filled the interior of an ammonite. You also can see the coiling of the ammonite. The squiggly lines are the septa that separated the interior chambers.

 

See details of the septa:

 

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This looks to me to be the Turonian ammonite Fagesia peroni. More than likely Moroccan, since it's polished to death, probably from Goulmima. It may still be possible to prep out the center, though, which would make it even more interesting.

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