BRACHIOPODS
Brachiopods first appeared in rocks dating back to the early part of the Cambrean Period, about 525 million years ago.  The were extremely abundant during the Paleozoic Era (543 to 248 million years ago). At the end of the Paleozoic era, they were decimated in the mass extinction that marks the end of the Permian Period, about 250 million years ago.  This event may have killed more than 90 percent of all living species.  It was the largest of all extinction events (larger than the major extenction at the end of the Cretaceous period that killed off the dinosaurs). Only about 300 to 500 species of brachiopods exist today, compared to 12,000 to 15,000 species during the Paleozoic Era.
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We have Ammonites,  Brachiopods and fossil shark teeth for sale.  Prices and pictures will follow.
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FOSSILS
Items for the body, mind and spirit
Orthoceras ("straight horn") are the ancestors of the modern day squid.  They could swim as well as crawl on the ocean floor.  By filling the chambers in their shells with air they could float through the seas propelling themselves by squirting jets of water.  As they died their shells accummulated on the ocean floor, then covered by sediments (mud) they transformed into stone over the ages.  This specimen is from the Atlas Mountain Range in Morocco, dated to the Devonian Age, about 390 million years ago.                                                $45.00
This specimen contains several small ammonites in matrix, some of them pyritized.                                      $80.00

Ammonites date from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Period - 208 to 65 million years ago.  They became extinct 65 million years ago, about the same time as the dinosaurs.