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Species |
Family Belemnoidea |
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Geological Period |
Jurassic ≈ 180 ma |
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Origin |
Peniche, Portugal |
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Size |
7.0 - 9.0cm |
Natural belemnites in good state of conservation.
They are an extinct group of cephalopod molluscs. Very similar to current squids, the big difference is that they had an internal shell.
They lived in the sea, grouped in schools of the same species and were predators, feeding on other animals. The belemnites became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous (65 million years ago), in the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which also wiped out the dinosaurs and many other forms of life.
The piece you receive may differ slightly from the photo shown, as the fossils are natural and no piece is identical. The size is approximate.