Ammonite From Ammonite Canyon, Nevada

An ammonite--Psiloceras pacificum--still resting on its limestone matrix from the lower limestone layers of the lower Jurassic Sunrise Formation, Ammonite Canyon, Nevada. It was entombed in strata representing the earliest Hettangian Stage of the Jurassic Period, about 198 million years old.

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