Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1783
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 69r
Notes:
Ammonites, or Cornua ammonis (horns of Ammon), called snake stones, or serpent stones, are fossils of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea. Pictured here are drawings of fossils by Robert Hooke and Richard Waller that were the basis of the engravings in Hooke's Posthumous Works (1705).
Current Common Name:
Snake stone
Current Scientific Name
Cornua ammonis
