Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and spectacular paleontological specimens. They were formed through a geological process known as opalization, wherein organic material from ...

A lethal final meal preserved the only intact ammonite found in a fossil bed. Jeanne Timmons – Sep 20, 2023 10:57 am | 15 The fish in question, with the ammonite located just below its spine.

While ammonite shells are abundant in the fossil record, it was only recently that scientists have found a very rare fossil of the soft parts of an ammonite. However, fossilised evidence of ammonite ...

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This specimen is, so far, the only ammonite fossil found in a Hopewell mound. More: Ohio History Connection may soon be able to bury thousands of Native American remains ...

A paper published in an archaeology journal contends ammonite fossil found in American Indian Hopewell Mound in Ohio came from South Dakota Badlands.

That makes the Death By Ammonite fossil, more formally known as SMNS 52472, the first documented evidence of a “fatal last meal” in a pachycormid fish.

Amazing ammonites 'Ammonite' can refer to ammonoids (animals in the class Ammonoidea) which first appeared about 450 million years ago. The true ammonites (Ammonitida), a subgroup of ammonoids, lived ...

Fossil ammonites found in the North State range in size from half an inch to 18 inches across, according to Reed, while some found in other parts of the world are as big as three feet across.

The fossil clearly shows the imprint of a 4-inch-wide (10 centimeters) spiral ammonite shell lodged up against the fish's spine. And for a fish of this size, that's likely way too big to swallow.

Fossil ammonites found in the North State range in size from half an inch to 18 inches across, according to Reed, while some found in other parts of the world are as big as three feet across.