Tag: ammonites
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PBS Eons: Could You Survive the K-Pg Extinction?
PBS Eons has another of their longer form videos which address major events in the history of the Earth. This one is about the K-Pg mass extinction event about 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Would/could you survive? Remember, this event took out the non-avian dinosaurs, the ammonites, and many,…
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Human-size ammonites swam the Atlantic Ocean 80 million years ago
LiveScience has a story about some truly large ammonites. About 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period, six foot ammonites lived in the Atlantic Ocean. A new study published in the journal PLOS One looked at the evolutionary history of these massive cephalopods. They looked at 154 specimens (!), including 100 newly found specimens…
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Never-before-seen ammonite muscles revealed in 3D from Jurassic fossil
Phys.org has a story about an amazing ammonite fossil. The 165 million year old fossil has revealed never-before-seen soft body detail in an ammonite. It was found about 20 years ago in Gloucestershire, UK. Researchers at Cardiff University and Imperial College London, who published their study in the journal Geology, found evidence of muscles and…
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Report from ESCONI February 2021 Paleontology Meeting – “Ammonite Fields Forever”
If you missed the Paleontology Study Group meeting last Saturday (or even if you did attend), Rhonda Gates wrote an excellent report on their trip to the North Yorkshire beaches in England last February. The full pdf file can be downloaded here. Ammonite Fields Forever: From the Jurassic Coast to collecting on the beaches of…
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ESCONI January 2021 Paleontology Meeting – January 16th, 2021 at 7:30 PM via Zoom – “Giant Heteromorph Ammonites”
The ESCONI January 2021 Paleontology Meeting will be held on January 16th, 2021 at 7:30 PM via Zoom. The topic is “Giant Heteromorph Ammonites” by Professor Linda Ivany of Syracuse University. Professor Ivany wrote a paper called “Growth Rate and Ecology of the Giant Heteromorph Ammonite Diplomoceras maximum Using Stable Isotopes of Accretionary Shell Carbonate”. …
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Fossil Friday #12: Ammonites from Kansas
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #10. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! How about some pictures of ammonites from Kansas? …
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Fossil Friday #3: More Whitby Ammonites
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #3. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! For this week, we are going to…
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Fossil Friday #2: Whitby Ammonites
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #2. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! The following pictures are from Whitby, which…
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Field Museum: A Thanksgiving Tale of Two Horns
The Field Museum has a blog post about ammonites and Thanksgiving. What do Thanksgiving and a fossil ammonite have in common? In ancient times, the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans associated the coiled horns of rams with gods, power, virility, fertility, and abundance. The cornucopia—a conical wicker basket with a never-ending supply of food flowing from…
