Alternative Easter Gift!

[Jean]

I'm allergic to chocolate so no choc eggs for me but a friend gave me an alternative egg!

Plus I picked up (in the museum shop and exchanged $$ for it!) this ammonite still showing nacre.

 

[tonmo]

Very nice!

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Cool! an actual fossil nautiloid egg

 

[sorseress]

I gave one of those to Greg last year. I have an orthoceras bowl that I got for Christmas.

 

[Phil]

Lovely Orthoceras egg there Jean. If it hatches, please can we have the scoop here? I think the ammonite might well be a Cretaceous Desmoceras from Madagascar as I have one very similar, but please don't take my word for it.

(Allergic to chocolate? That's an appalling crime...)

 

[hallucigenia]

So today Monty showed me an ammonite, purportedly from Madagascar, that looks a fair bit like the second one...

 

[Jean]

According to the museum the ammonite is from Madagascar.

I will keep all posted on hatching of the egg, does anyone know the length of the gestation period?

J

 

[Architeuthoceras]

does anyone know the length of the gestation period?

It was probably laid in the Devonian Period, so it will be at about 395 million years.

 

[Jean]

It was probably laid in the Devonian Period, so it will be at about 395 million years.

So I won't hold my breath waiting then?

J