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Jun 6, 2022 · For today’s Discover Geology, the National Museum Bicol features fossils of an extinct squid-like sea creature from Bicol— the shelled cephalopods called ammonites. Ammonites were predatory marine animals from the Class Cephalopoda having shells like nautilus, but squids, octopus, and cuttlefishes are their closest relative.
Jul 8, 2023 · The study of ammonites, known as ammonitology, provides valuable insights into the evolution, paleoecology, and biostratigraphy of ancient marine environments. Ammonites thrived in a variety of marine habitats, from shallow coastal waters to deep-sea environments.
Mar 24, 2024 · Did ammonites ever existed in the Philippines? Well, the answer is yes! Fossils of ammonites dating from the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods have been found in the Philippines. These fossils prove that Ammonites did live in the area of what we now know as the Philippines during ancient times.
Jun 27, 2024 · A new study used museum collections to map ammonite diversity around the globe before their total extinction and found they were not in decline prior to their extinction alongside non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Examples of different shapes of ammonoid shells. Image by Jonathan R. Hendricks. Phylogenetically, ammonoids (as well as a few other much smaller groups, not covered here) are considered to be stem-group coleoids (Kroger et al., 2011).
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Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The often tightly wound shells of ammonites may be a familiar sight, but how much do you know about the animals that once lived inside? What were ammonites?
