Choffaticeras sp. cf. C. luciae

The ammonite on view belongs to genus Choffaticeras HYATT 1903, family Tissotiidae. The age of the fossil is the middle part of the Early Turonian. It is from the Yirka Fm. in the Upper Galilee, a few km. northwest of the town of Carmiel, reportedly rescued from a roadcut under construction.

This is a large adult specimen, with the body chamber forming most of the final whorl and the sutured phragmocone not well preserved. The large, flat keeled morphology with shallow umbilical region suggest affinity to C. luciae, but it is not possible to conclusively assign it to this species.