Pterosaurs ruled the skies during the age of the dinosaurs. Over millions of years, they evolved into an enormous variety of ...

The bony fish preserved in Death By Ammonite is Pachycormus macropterus, and it’s thought to date back to a time in the Early Jurassic known as the Toarcian that was between 174 and 182 million ...

All we have left of ammonites are their spiral-shaped shells, found scattered across the UK’s beaches and cliffs.. These extinct sea creatures were cephalopods, making them relatives of today’s ...

Early Greeks saw ammonites as sacred symbols associated with the horned god, Jupiter Ammon. “They called them Cornu Ammonis – horns of Ammon –from which the scientific name ‘ammonite’ is derived,” ...

Some extinct species left copious fossil remnants of their existence. Ammonites—an extinct type of cephalopod—are one such example.From the Devonian right up until the Paleocene, wherever ...

Early Jurassic (201.4 million to 174.7 million years ago) ... Ammonites were very nearly wiped out. Conularidis completely died out, but around 4 percent of coral survived.

Thousands of specimens were collected, especially from the Early Jurassic rocks along the southern coast of England. Many found their way onto the walls of private mansions as decorations.