Goniatites Fossil Textured Sculpture

Goniatites Fossil Textured Sculpture-Each one of these is unique, and contains from 2 to 5 polished genuine goniatites fossils. The fossils are in a natural rock type matrix. The average size of the sculptures are 11" tall by 8" wide.

Goniatites are extinct ammonoids, shelled cephalopods related to squid, octopus, and belemnites, that form the order Goniatitida. The Gonatitida originated from within the more primitive anarcestine ammonoids in the Middle Devonian some 390 million years ago. Surviving the Late Devonian extinction, goniatitids flourished during the Carboniferous and Permian only to become extinct at the end of the Permian some 251.4 million years ago. They were survived by their cousins the ceratite ammonoids, indirect descendants of the Anarcestida.