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Description: | Specimen of a fossil ammonite, Androgynoceras maculatum, collected from the Ibex Zone, Lower Lias of Early Jurassic, Early Pliensbachian age.
Androgynoceras maculatum was an ammonite that lived during the early Jurassic, approximately 190 million years ago. Ammonites were sea creatures that looked a bit like the modern nautilus that lives in the Pacific Ocean. Like Nautilus, they had tentacles, and a coiled shell. Ammonites were probably eaten by large marine reptiles such as the dolphin-like ichthyosaur that died out 65 million years ago, the same time as the dinosaurs.
It is from the Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Cephalopoda Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Ammonoidea Mollusca | Temporal: | Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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