As the ancient super-continent Gondwana broke up in the mid-Jurassic period, Madagascar was wrenched from eastern Africa. The mini-continent thus formed included present day Madagascar and India existing until about 88 million years ago when India split off and began drifting to a collision with Asia. Madagascar remained in place, a chunk of ancient Gondwana preserved to the present day.
The ammonite fossils we offer lived in the warm shallows of a Jurassic and Cretaceous sea that lapped the western shores of that long lost island continent. Here are beautiful fossilized examples of Upper Cretaceous ammonites presently coming from Madirovalo and Jurassic ammonites from Tulear, Madagascar.
Our large catalog of ammonite specimens from Madagascar has been divided into four categories for convenience:
