Cephalopoda

A souvenir from the beach! Nice and weighty, this double sided pendant is a true find! Hung from a decorative bail 

Solid silver Ammonite pendant on an 18" Spiga chain

Ammonite minus the bail - 16mm x 13mm

Earrings to match - Ammonite

Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. They were ocean-dwelling molluscs.  They are more closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish than they are to nautiluses.

Ammonites were born with tiny shells and, as they grew, they built new chambers onto it. They would move their entire body into a new chamber and seal off their old and now too-small living quarters with walls known as septa and first appeared about 450 million years ago