Showing posts with label ammonite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ammonite. Show all posts
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

A MASSIVE AMMONITE THE SIZE OF A CAR: THE FERNIE AMMONITE

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite—long known as Titanites occidentalis —has officially been given a new name: Cor...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

SPIRALING BEAUTY: AMMONITES AS INDEX FOSSILS

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Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...
Tuesday, 17 March 2026

BACK IN THE USSR: KEPPLERITES

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This glorious chocolate block contains the creamy grey ammonite Kepplerites gowerianus (Sowerby 1827) with a few invertebrate friends, incl...
Monday, 16 March 2026

OIL IN WATER BEAUTY: FOSSILS OF FOLKSTONE

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Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and ...
Friday, 13 March 2026

QUENSTEDTOCERAS WITH PATHOLOGY

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What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shel...
Tuesday, 10 March 2026

BACK IN THE USSR: BEADANTICERAS OF THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS

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This lovely oil in water coloured ammonite is the beauty Beudanticeras sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Aptian), Krasnodar region, Nor...
Tuesday, 10 February 2026

FRACTAL BUILDING: AMMONITES

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Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...
Sunday, 8 February 2026

LOOPS, LURCHES AND LATE CRETACEOUS SEAS: MEET AUDOULICERAS

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Audouliceras Heteromorph Ammonite There are sensible ammonites… and then there are the heteromorphs. Audouliceras belongs firmly in the sec...
Wednesday, 4 February 2026

COILED PERFECTION: LYTOCERAS

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A superbly prepped and extremely rare Lytoceras (Suess, 1865) ammonite found as a green ammonite nodule by Matt Cape in the Lower Lias of D...
Monday, 26 January 2026

A MASSIVE AMMONITE THE SIZE OF A CAR: THE FERNIE AMMONITE

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite—long known as Titanites occidentalis —has officially been given a new name: Cor...
Friday, 16 January 2026

AMMONITES IN CONCRETION

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At first glance they look like ordinary stones—rounded, weathered, unassuming.  But then you notice the delicious hints: a spiral ghosting t...
Thursday, 8 January 2026

TASEKO LAKES FOSSIL ADVENTURE

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John Fam, VIPS & VanPS Over three field seasons, thirty-five taxa from the Mineralense and Rursicostatum zones were studied and three ne...
Monday, 8 December 2025

HOLCOPHYLLOCERAS: A JEWEL OF JURASSIC SEAS

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What is most wonderful about natural science is that every fossil—every spiral, ridge, and suture—opens a window onto a vanished world.  Tak...
Wednesday, 24 September 2025

LOWER LIAS LYTOCERAS AMMONITE

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A superbly prepped and extremely rare Lytoceras (Suess, 1865) ammonite found as a green ammonite nodule by Matt Cape in the Lower Lias of D...
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

INDEX FOSSILS: AMMONITES

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Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...
Sunday, 10 August 2025

AINOCERAS OF VANCOUVER ISLAND

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A wee baby deep chocolate Ainoceras sp. heteromorph ammonite from Vancouver Island. This adorable corkscrew-shaped ammonite is an extinct m...