Ammonite Mammite Nodosoide | Morocco

Mammite Ammonite approx. 5.25" x 6"      Measures approx. 9" x 7" with base   Mammite nodosoides species lived in the Cenomanian and Turonian age, during the Late Cretaceous. 90 myo It had a characteristic shell with  "umbilical bullae", which are the bumpy outgrowths distributed along its sides. It was considered the prehistoric predator of the cephalopod family. Mammites was named by Laube and Bruder in 1887. (Wikipedia) Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These mollusks, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) than they are to shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species.[1] The earliest ammonites appear during the Devonian, and the last species vanished in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Ammonites are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which a particular species or