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Most ammonites died out at the same time as the non-avian dinosaurs, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago. Zoë says, 'We didn't quite lose all of them at the end of the Cretaceous. A few species continued into the Palaeogene in the Western Interior Seaway before dying out.'
- Life in the Jurassic ocean | Natural History Museum
About 199 million years ago, during the Earth’s Jurassic...
- Snakestones: the myth, magic and science of ammonites
Scientists now know that ammonites are extinct molluscs that...
- Life in the Jurassic ocean | Natural History Museum
During their long history, ammonites survived three mass extinctions —most notably the Permian extinction, a global warming that was brought on by volcanic activity about 252 million years ago,...
The marine molluscs with coiled shells and one of palaeontology's great icons flourished in Earth's oceans for more than 350 million years until they died out during the same chance event that...
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Ammonites were marine animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca and the class Cephalopoda. They had a coiled external shell similar to that of the modern nautilus. In other living cephalopods, e.g. octopus, squid and cuttlefish, the shells are small and internal, or absent.
The use of ammonites in stratigraphy was pioneered in the 1850s by two Germans — Friedrich Quenstedt of Tübingen (1809–1889) and his one-time pupil, Albert Oppel of Munich (1831–1865). Their work was based on the ammonites of the Swabian and Franconian Alb of southern Germany — the eastern extension of the Jura Mountains of France and Switzerland, ...
Ammonites make excellent guide fossils for stratigraphy because: 1. they evolved rapidly so that each ammonite species has a relatively short life span 2. they are found in many types of marine sedimentary rocks 3. they are relatively common and reasonably easy to identify 4. they have a worldwide geographical distribution The rapidity of ammonite ...
Ammonite fossils are traditionally illustrated ‘upside down’ with the body chamber shown at the top. However, in life they would have swum the other way up.
Many of the fossils in the BGS palaeontology collections are available to view and download as 3D models. To view this fossil, or others like it, in 3D visit GB3D Type Fossils.
Scientists now know that ammonites are extinct molluscs that jet propelled themselves through the oceans of the Mesozoic Era. They died out at the same time as dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Their nearest living relative, the chambered nautilus, is considered a 'living fossil'.
Jan 6, 2011 · Now, exquisite X-ray images featured in Science magazine, external are providing new insights on how the ammonites lived and perhaps also on why they died out.
Aug 4, 2014 · However, even the most geographically dispersed ammonites became extinct in the Palaeocene, whereas Eutrephoceras survived. This new paper proposes that a broad geographical distribution may have initially protected some ammonites against dying out, but it was no guarantee of their ultimate survival.
