Ammonite shells are used today as index fossils, meaning they can help date other fossils that are found in the same layer of marine rock. These cephalopods make for ideal index fossils because ...

Much of the Mesozoic aged rock in Europe has been sectioned into 'ammonite zones', where rocks in different areas can be associated with each other based on the ammonite fossils found in them. Zoë ...

Ammonite fossils, an example is shown here, are sea creatures that became extinct about 65 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in rocks of all ages. Fossils of the simplest organisms ...

Wight Coast Fossils Jack Wonfor spotted an initial edge of the ammonite exposed from the rock It took several attempts for Mr Wonfor, along with friends and fellow fossil collectors, to get the ...

Some ammonite species were tiny, others as big as a person. Ammonites lived in the sea. If you find an ammonite fossil in a rock, you know that millions of years ago the spot where you’re standing ...

Fossils found in the northern part of Hokkaido are a new type of ammonite, the once-ubiquitous spiral-shelled creatures that went extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, researchers said.

after helping a friend carry a large ammonite that to him looked like a rock. As he watched him cut the fossil from the rock, his interest grew. The self-taught palaeontologist found about a third ...

Hong Kong has previously found many plant and animal fossils, including ostracod and ammonite fossils from about ... in March ...

According to authorities, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department informed the Antiquities and Monuments Office that the sedimentary rock ... ostracod and ammonite fossils from ...

Ammonite fossils, an example is shown here, are sea creatures that became extinct about 65 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in rocks of all ages. Fossils of the simplest organisms ...