Large Ammonite - Primordial Ocean Douvilleiceras - Height: 510 mm - Width: 410 mm- 21900 g - (1)






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Douvilleiceras large ammonite specimen from Madagascar, mounted on a wooden and metal decorative base with a total weight of 21,900 g.
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Douvilleiceras – Monument of the Ancient Sea — This large ammonite of the Douvilleiceras species, sourced from Madagascar, is a fossil, fragment of primordial ocean solidified in time. Its powerful spiral tells the journey of a cephalopod that plied the seas of the Cretaceous, over one hundred million years ago, when the world was populated by gigantic creatures and the oceans housed forms of life of extraordinary variety. The shell, with its nodose reliefs and compact geometry, embodies the strength of nature that shaped it: not a delicate spiral, but a vigorous architecture, worthy of the tumultuous seas that housed it. The sutures incised like geological arabesques, joined to the warm, earthy colors of fossilization, yield an object that is both natural sculpture and paleontological document. Mounted on a decorative wooden and metal base, this Douvilleiceras is not only a scientific specimen: it becomes the protagonist of a space, capable of transforming into the focal point of a collecting, museological, or refined furnishing environment. Owning it means guarding a natural monument, a direct witness of distant eras, 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 eternal art, born from the perfect alliance of sea, minerals, and time. Ammonite dimensions: 410 x 380 x 155 mm
Seller's Story
Douvilleiceras – Monument of the Ancient Sea — This large ammonite of the Douvilleiceras species, sourced from Madagascar, is a fossil, fragment of primordial ocean solidified in time. Its powerful spiral tells the journey of a cephalopod that plied the seas of the Cretaceous, over one hundred million years ago, when the world was populated by gigantic creatures and the oceans housed forms of life of extraordinary variety. The shell, with its nodose reliefs and compact geometry, embodies the strength of nature that shaped it: not a delicate spiral, but a vigorous architecture, worthy of the tumultuous seas that housed it. The sutures incised like geological arabesques, joined to the warm, earthy colors of fossilization, yield an object that is both natural sculpture and paleontological document. Mounted on a decorative wooden and metal base, this Douvilleiceras is not only a scientific specimen: it becomes the protagonist of a space, capable of transforming into the focal point of a collecting, museological, or refined furnishing environment. Owning it means guarding a natural monument, a direct witness of distant eras, 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 eternal art, born from the perfect alliance of sea, minerals, and time. Ammonite dimensions: 410 x 380 x 155 mm
