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Description: | Specimen of a fossil ammonite, Dactylioceras commune, collected from the Commune Sub-zone, Upper Lias of Early Jurassic age. Collected by Emma Smith.
Dactylioceras commune has evenly spaced ribs (ridges) covering the surface of its shell. Ammonites were sea creatures that looked a bit like the modern nautilus that lives in the Pacific Ocean. They probably ate plankton (tiny plants), and small sea animals, including young brachiopods (lamp shells), corals and bryozoans. This ammonite probably comes from rocks in North Yorkshire. It is a very common in the Whitby area.
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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