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Description: | Specimen of a fossil belemnite, Hibolites hastatus, collected from the Oxford Clay of Late Jurassic, Oxfordian age from St. Ives, Cambridgeshire (SE England).
These belemnites from Cambridgeshire are a more delicate shape than the bullet-like belemnites that are commonly found in the Jurassic rocks of Yorkshire. Belemnites are found in a variety of slightly different shapes. Belemnites were similar to the modern squid, but died out 65 million years ago, the same time as the dinosaurs. Belemnites were eaten by ichthyosaurs, large marine reptiles that looked a bit like dolphins.
The specimen was found in Cambridgeshire.
It is from the Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Cephalopoda Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Mollusca Belemnoidea | 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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