Large Ammonite - Primordial Ocean - Douvilleiceras – Monument of the Ancient Sea - Height: 510 mm - Width: 410 mm- 21.9 kg






Directed the Ifergan Collection Museum, specialising in Phoenician and Mediterranean archaeology.
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This large ammonite of the species Douvilleiceras, originating from Madagascar, is a fossil, a fragment of primordial ocean solidified in time. Its powerful spiral tells the journey of a cephalopod that prowled the seas of the Cretaceous, more than a hundred million years ago, when the world was populated by titan creatures and the oceans harbored life forms of extraordinary variety. The shell, with its nodular reliefs and compact geometry, embodies the strength of nature that shaped it: not a delicate spiral, but a vigorous architecture, worthy of the stormy seas that hosted it. The sutures incised like geological arabesques, joined to the warm, earthy colors of fossilization, yield an object that is at once natural sculpture and paleontological document. Mounted on a decorative base in wood and metal, this Douvilleiceras is not only a scientific specimen: it becomes the protagonist of a space, capable of transforming into the focal point of a collection, museum, or refined decorative environment. To possess it means guarding a natural monument, a direct witness of distant epochs, when the ocean was the undisputed realm of ammonites. It is an invitation to contemplation and wonder, a fragment of geological time that today offers itself as an eternal work of art, born from the perfect alliance of sea, minerals and time.
Measurements Ammonite: 410 x 380 x 155 mm
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This large ammonite of the species Douvilleiceras, originating from Madagascar, is a fossil, a fragment of primordial ocean solidified in time. Its powerful spiral tells the journey of a cephalopod that prowled the seas of the Cretaceous, more than a hundred million years ago, when the world was populated by titan creatures and the oceans harbored life forms of extraordinary variety. The shell, with its nodular reliefs and compact geometry, embodies the strength of nature that shaped it: not a delicate spiral, but a vigorous architecture, worthy of the stormy seas that hosted it. The sutures incised like geological arabesques, joined to the warm, earthy colors of fossilization, yield an object that is at once natural sculpture and paleontological document. Mounted on a decorative base in wood and metal, this Douvilleiceras is not only a scientific specimen: it becomes the protagonist of a space, capable of transforming into the focal point of a collection, museum, or refined decorative environment. To possess it means guarding a natural monument, a direct witness of distant epochs, when the ocean was the undisputed realm of ammonites. It is an invitation to contemplation and wonder, a fragment of geological time that today offers itself as an eternal work of art, born from the perfect alliance of sea, minerals and time.
Measurements Ammonite: 410 x 380 x 155 mm
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