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Description: | Specimen of a fossil ammonite, Lytoceras fimbriatum, collected from the Margaritatus Zone, Middle Lias of Early Jurassic, Late Pliensbachian age from Lyme Regis, Dorset (SW England).
Lytoceras fimbricatum was an ammonite that lived in the Jurassic seas. It was alive at the same time as the dinosaurs, and was preyed upon (eaten) by large marine reptiles like pliosaurs that also lived in the sea. Ammonites are now extinct (they died out at the same time as the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago), and were similar to the modern pearly nautilus that lives in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean.
The specimen was found in Dorset.
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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