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Description: | Specimen of a fossil ammonite, Pleuroceras hawskerense, collected from the Spinatum Zone, Middle Lias of Early Jurassic, Late Pliensbachian age from North Yorkshire (NE England). Collected by Emma Smith. Shows suture pattern.
Pleuroceras hawskerense was an ammonite that lived during the early Jurassic, approximately 195 million years ago. This ammonite has a frilly suture line, which can be seen on part of the shell. Suture lines are related to the growth of the ammonite, and form where the inner walls of the shell join the side of the shell. Different species of ammonites occur in different layers of rock and are used to date the rocks in which they are found. Such fossils are known as Zone Fossils.
The specimen was found in North Yorkshire.
It is from the Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Cephalopoda Smith Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Ammonoidea Emma 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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Pleuroceras hawskerense was an ammonite…
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