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Mary Anning
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Nov 13, 2020 · A historical drama about Mary Anning, a 19th century English paleontologist who discovers fossils and falls in love with a wealthy visitor's wife. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this film.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Francis Lee
- 2020-11-13
Ammonites were ocean-dwelling molluscs that died out 66 million years ago. Learn about their evolution, diversity, extinction and fossil record from the Museum's experts.
Ammonites were ancient marine predators that evolved about 416 million years ago and ruled the prehistoric seas. They had coiled shells with chambers and sutures, and they were related to modern nautiluses. They faced three mass extinctions and died out about 66 million years ago. Learn more about their appearance, behavior, evolution, and fossil record.
Ammonite clean cut. Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) than they are to shelled nautiloids (such as the living Nautilus).
Ammonite is a 2020 romantic drama film written and directed by Francis Lee. The film is loosely inspired by the life of British palaeontologist Mary Anning, played by Kate Winslet. The film centres on a speculative romantic relationship between Anning and Charlotte Murchison, played by Saoirse Ronan.
- $1.4 million
- < £10 million, ($13.4 million)
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Learn about ammonites, extinct cephalopods with chambered shells, from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras. Find out their diversity, evolution, ecology, and geologic significance.
Description. Go behind the scenes at the Smithsonian to meet Dr. Lucy Chang, Paleobiologist at the National Museum of Natural History. Sharing ammonite fossils from the Smithsonian’s collection, Lucy will explain what ammonites are and how scientists use their fossils to understand what they looked like, what they ate, and how they lived.
