Extra Large Ammonite Mortality Plate

Locale: Ambarimaninga, Madagascar.  Southwest of Mahajunga. Period: Albian, 113 to 100.5 myo Genus: Douvilleiceras & Nautiluses.  Includes numerous small bivalves." From the founder Sean:  "I found this piece at our annual Tucson show a couple years ago and was so clearly smitten by it that the vendor asked if this was a personal purchase, “Are you buying this one for yourself?”  Evidently my expression conveyed how much I liked the sizable specimen.  Quite often over the years, that is exactly how I’ve made decisions on buying, whether it’s fossils, plants or framed insects.  I buy as if I’m making the purchase for myself; it just so happens that those purchases end up in the selection at Paxton Gate, rather than my home. Collections of numerous specimens in one fossil, like this, are often referred to as “mortality plates” as they’re quite often displayed on flat segments of stone. Usually, these are the result of some mass mortality event such as a mudslide, or more complex inci