A Titanites giganteus fossil on display! Everything Dinosaur team members photographed a giant ammonite fossil. It was an exhibit at the Grant Museum of Zoology in London. It is a spectacular specimen. This species is known from Upper Jurassic sediments. It is one of the largest ammonite taxa known in the UK.
A giant ammonite fossil Titanites giganteus on display at the Grant Museum of Zoology (London). Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.
Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur
Titanites could grow to huge sizes. Some species can reach a shell diameter of more than one metre. However, Titanites giganteus specimens are normally around sixty to seventy centimetres in diameter. Ammonites were cephalopods. It is likely to have come from Dorset from a Portland Stone quarry. The picture (below) shows a life reconstruction of an ammonite. It is the Bullyland ammonite figure.
The Bullyland replica ammonite model. A wonderful example of this extinct cephalopod.
To view the range of Bullyland figures in stock at Everything Dinosaur: Bullyland Prehistoric Animal Models.
Mike from Everything Dinosaur commented:
“Large ammonite fossils are rare, but they can still be found in parts of southern England today. The Portland Stone is limestone, and invertebrate fossils are relatively common. However, finding a well-preserved Titanites fossil would be the find of a lifetime.”
The award-winning Everything Dinosaur website: Prehistoric Animal Figures.
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