Description

Early Eocene

London Clay

Isle of Sheppey, England

Very rare 45mm Cenozoic nautiloid.

Nautiloid, Cephalopod.

Cimomia is the largest of the nautiloids known from the London Clay.

Cenozoic nautiloids are not often seen on the market though they are found in many parts of the world.  Nautiloids managed to survive the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous and diversified in the early Cenozoic before going into decline by the Late Miocene.  Today, only a few species survive in the Indo-Paciifc region and mostly in deeper water.