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A framed ammonite fossil specimen
Fossilised shelled cephalopod
Museum number: M1159
On display: Colonnade - central aisle
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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This specimen has been carefully prepared: it is a section through an ammonite showing the internal structure. The numbering sequence of the Museum (as in the early 1837 inventories) proves that this piece hung next to another ammonite, M1158, showing the external appearance of a similarly sized fossil.
M1158, comparison
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