View Full Version : [News] Giant ammonite on display in Vancouver


Phil
Nov 16th, 2006, 12:46pm
Fond in a coalmine in Sparwood, the second largest ammonite ever found in Canada is about to go on display at the Courtenay and District Museum and Paleontology Centre. It is 1.5m across, is 150 million years old and has not been positively identified.

Here are details, and a photograph:

http://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=8&cat=23&id=771620&more=

spartacus
Nov 17th, 2006, 07:16am
it's gonna need a serious shelf !

Keef

Phil
Nov 17th, 2006, 08:09am
Hmmm, or a seriously reinforced floor methinks.