Yes, very nice find! Try to research the age of the rock you found it in, it might be from the Jurassic Period (When dinosaurs were around)

@luke-hudspeth Very nice ammonite! You can find the age by checking your location on http://macrostrat.org. It’s a website with a global geologic map.

WOWWWWW!!!!

This is part of an ammonite shell, a fairly common but still very awesome fossil! You must live in a very interesting geological spot to have seen these your whole life, there’s barely any fossils where I live!

Thank you for the quick response and my son is excited to learn about these. Of course his first question was how did a sea creature end up here. We live where the Ouachita Mountains meet the plains in SE Oklahoma so it’s diverse I guess. You can find stuff like this in any creek bed which is pretty cool.

Well nothing today is as it once was. Deserts used to be oceans, oceans used to be mountain ranges, and mountain ranges used to be rainforests. The surface of the earth is constantly changing. For example, the Sahara desert will be a forest in about 10,000 years. Although old ecosystems are gone, the creatures that lived there remain as fossils.…[Read more]

Greetings @luke-hudspeth ! I second @a-trilobite ‘s ammonite ID. Lucky discovery to find around the house! Do you have any location data like county or nearest municipality? It could help ID the geological formation , age, and potential type of ammonite of your specimen. Depending on the geological formation it came from, the presence could be a…[Read more]