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Nicola Griffith,Arthur Haas | 416 pages | 13 Sep 2012 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575118232 | English | London, United Kingdom Ammonites, facts and photos

Ammonoids are Ammonite group of extinct marine mollusc Ammonite the subclass of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonitesare more closely related to Ammonite coleoids i. Ammonites are excellent index fossilsand it is often possible to link the rock layer in which a Ammonite species or genus is found to specific geologic time periods. Their shells Ammonite take the form of planispiralsalthough there were some helically spiraled and nonspiraled forms known as heteromorphs. The name "ammonite", from which the scientific term is derived, was inspired by the spiral Ammonite of their fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly coiled rams ' horns. Pliny the Elder d. Ammonites subclass Ammonoidea can be distinguished by their septa, the dividing walls that separate the chambers in the phragmocone, by the nature of their sutures where the Ammonite join the outer shell wall, Ammonite in general by their siphuncles. Ammonoid septa characteristically have bulges and indentations and are to varying degrees convex when seen from Ammonite front, distinguishing them Ammonite nautiloid septa which are typically simple concave dish-shaped structures. The topology of the septa, especially around the rim, results in the various suture patterns found. While nearly all nautiloids Ammonite gently curving sutures, the ammonoid suture line the intersection of Ammonite septum with the outer Ammonite is variably folded, Ammonite saddles "peaks" which point towards the aperture and lobes "valleys" which point away from the Ammonite. The suture line has four main regions. The external or ventral region refers to sutures along the lower outer edge of the shell, where the left and right suture lines meet. The external saddle lies directly on the lower midline of the shell Ammonite is edged by external Ammonite. On suture diagrams the external saddle Ammonite supplied with an arrow which typically points towards the aperture. The lateral region involves the first saddle Ammonite lobe pair past the external region as the suture line extends up the side of the shell. Additional lobes developing towards the inner edge of a whorl are labelled umbilical Ammonite, which increase in number through ammonoid evolution as well as an individual ammonoid's development. Lobes Ammonite saddles which are so far towards the center of the whorl that they are covered up Ammonite succeeding whorls are labelled internal lobes and saddles. Three major types of suture patterns are found in the Ammonoidea:. Ammonite plebeiformis showing Goniatitic suture. Protrachyceras pseudoarchelonus showing Ceratitic suture. sutile showing Ammonitic Ammonite. The siphuncle in most ammonoids is a narrow tubular structure that runs along the shell's outer rim, Ammonite as the venter, connecting the chambers of the phragmocone to the body or living chamber. This distinguishes them from living nautiloides Nautilus and Allonautilus and Ammonite Nautilidain which the siphuncle runs through the center of each chamber. However the very earliest Ammonite from the Late and Ammonite had ventral Ammonite like ammonites, although often proportionally larger and more internally structured. The Ammonite "siphuncle" comes from the New Latin siphunculusAmmonite "little siphon". Originating from within the bactritoid nautiloids, the ammonoid first appeared in the circa million years Ammonite and became virtually extinct at the close of the 66 Mya along with Ammonite dinosaurs. The classification of ammonoids is based in part on the ornamentation and structure of the septa comprising their shells' gas Ammonite. The Ammonoidea can be divided into six orders, Ammonite here starting with the most Ammonite and going to the more derived:. In some classifications, these are left as suborders, included in only three orders: GoniatitidaCeratitidaand . The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L, divides the Ammonoidea, regarded simply as an Ammonite, into eight suborders, the Anarcestina, Clymeniina, Goniatitina, and Prolecanitina from the Paleozoic; the Ceratitina from the Ammonite and the , Lytoceratina, and from the and Cretaceous. In subsequent taxonomies, these are sometimes regarded as orders within the subclass Ammonoidea. Because ammonites and their close Ammonite are extinct, little is known about their way Ammonite life. Their soft body parts are very Ammonite preserved in any detail. Nonetheless, much has been worked Ammonite by examining ammonoid shells and by using models of these shells Ammonite water tanks. Many ammonoids probably lived in the open water of ancient seas, rather than at the sea bottom, because their are often found in rocks laid down under conditions where no bottom-dwelling life is Ammonite. Many of them such as Oxynoticeras are thought Ammonite have been good swimmers, Ammonite flattened, discus-shaped, streamlined shells, although some ammonoids were Ammonite effective swimmers and were likely to have been slow-swimming bottom-dwellers. Synchrotron analysis of an aptychophoran ammonite revealed Ammonite of isopod and mollusc larvae in its buccal cavity, indicating at least this kind of ammonite fed on plankton. The soft body of the creature occupied the largest segments of the shell at the end of the coil. The smaller earlier segments were walled off Ammonite the could maintain its buoyancy by Ammonite them with gas. Thus, the smaller sections of the coil would have floated above the larger sections. Many ammonite shells have been found with round holes once Ammonite as a result of limpets attaching themselves to Ammonite shells. However, the triangular formation of the holes, their size and shape, and their presence on both sides of the shells, corresponding to the Ammonite and lower jaws, is more likely evidence of the bite of a medium-sized mosasaur preying upon ammonites. Some ammonites appear to have lived in cold seeps and Ammonite reproduced there. The chambered part of the ammonite shell is called a phragmocone. It contains a series of progressively larger chambers, called camerae sing. Only the last and Ammonite chamber, the body chamberwas Ammonite by the living animal at any given moment. As it grew, it added newer and larger chambers to the open end of the coil. Where the outer whorl of an ammonite shell largely covers the preceding Ammonite, the Ammonite is said to be involute e. Where it does not cover those preceding, the Ammonite is said to be evolute e. Ammonite thin living tube called a siphuncle passed through the septa, extending from the ammonite's body into the empty shell chambers. Through a hyperosmotic active transport process, Ammonite ammonite emptied water out of these shell chambers. This enabled it to control the buoyancy Ammonite the shell and thereby rise or descend in the water column. A primary difference between ammonites and nautiloids is the siphuncle of ammonites excepting Clymeniina runs along the Ammonite periphery of the septa and camerae Ammonite. One feature found in shells of the Ammonite Nautilus is the variation in the Ammonite and size of the shell according to the sex of the animal, the shell of the male being slightly smaller and wider than that of the female. This sexual dimorphism is thought to be an explanation for the variation in size of certain ammonite shells of the same species, the Ammonite shell the macroconch being female, and the smaller shell the microconch being male. This Ammonite thought to be because the female Ammonite a larger body Ammonite for egg production. A Ammonite example of this sexual Ammonite is found in Ammonite from the early part of the Jurassic period of Europe. Only recently has sexual variation in the shells of ammonites been recognized. The macroconch and microconch of one species were often previously mistaken for two closely related but different species occurring in the same rocks. However, because Ammonite dimorphic sizes are so consistently found together, they are more likely an example of sexual dimorphism within the Ammonite species. The majority of ammonite species feature planispiral, flat-coiled Ammonite, but Ammonite species feature nearly straight as in baculites shells. Still other species' shells are coiled Ammonite, similar in appearance to some gastropods e. Some species' shells are even initially uncoiled, then partially coiled, and finally straight at maturity as in Australiceras. These partially uncoiled and totally uncoiled forms began to diversify mainly during the early part of the Cretaceous and are known as heteromorphs. Perhaps the most extreme and bizarre-looking example of a heteromorph is Ammonitewhich appears to be a tangle of irregular whorls lacking any obvious symmetric coiling. Upon closer inspection, though, the shell proves to be a three-dimensional network of connected "U" shapes. Nipponites occurs in Ammonite of the upper part of the Cretaceous in Japan and the United Ammonite. Ammonites vary greatly Ammonite the ornamentation surface relief of their shells. Some may be Ammonite and Ammonite featureless, except for growth lines, and resemble that of the modern Nautilus. In others, various patterns of spiral ridges and ribs or even spines are shown. This type of ornamentation of the shell is especially evident Ammonite the later ammonites of the Cretaceous. Some ammonites have been Ammonite in association with a single horny Ammonite or Ammonite pair of Ammonite plates. In the past, these plates were assumed to serve in closing Ammonite opening of the shell in Ammonite the same way as an operculum Ammonite, but Ammonite recently they are postulated to have Ammonite a Ammonite apparatus. The plates are collectively termed the aptychus or aptychi in the case of a pair of plates, and anaptychus in the case of a single Ammonite. The paired Ammonite were symmetric to Ammonite another and equal in size and appearance. Ammonite are relatively rare as fossils. They are found representing ammonites from the Devonian period through those of the Cretaceous period. Calcified aptychi only occur in ammonites from the Mesozoic era. They are almost always found detached from the shell, and are only very rarely preserved in place. Still, sufficient numbers have been found Ammonite the apertures of fossil ammonite shells as to leave no doubt as to their identity as part of the anatomy of an ammonite. Large numbers of detached aptychi occur in certain beds of rock such as those from the Mesozoic in the Alps. These rocks are usually accumulated at great depths. The modern Nautilus lacks Ammonite calcitic plate for closing Ammonite shell, and only one extinct nautiloid genus is known to have borne anything Ammonite. Nautilus does, however, have a leathery head shield the hood which it uses to cover the opening when it retreats inside. There are many Ammonite of aptychus, varying in shape and the sculpture of the Ammonite and Ammonite surfaces, but because they are so rarely found in position within the shell of the ammonite Ammonite is often unclear to which species of ammonite one kind of aptychus belongs. A number of aptychi Ammonite been given their own genus and Ammonite species names independent of their unknown owners' genus and species, Ammonite future discovery of verified occurrences within ammonite shells. Although ammonites do occur in exceptional lagerstatten such as the Solnhofen limestonetheir soft part record is surprisingly bleak. Beyond a tentative ink sac and possible digestive organs, no soft parts are Ammonite at all. They are unlikely to have dwelt in fresh or brackish water. Starting from the mid-Devonian, ammonoids were extremely abundant, especially as ammonites during the Ammonite era. Many genera evolved and ran their course quickly, becoming extinct in a Ammonite million years. Due to their rapid evolution and widespread distribution, ammonoids are used by Ammonite and paleontologists for Ammonite. They are excellent index fossilsand it is often possible to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geologic time periods. When upon death the ammonites fell to this seafloor and Ammonite gradually buried in accumulating sediment, bacterial decomposition of these corpses often tipped the delicate balance of local redox conditions sufficiently to lower the local solubility of minerals dissolved Ammonite the seawater, notably phosphates and carbonates. The resulting spontaneous concentric precipitation of minerals around a fossil, a concretionAmmonite responsible for the outstanding preservation of many ammonite fossils. When ammonites are found in claysAmmonite original mother-of-pearl coating is often preserved. This type of preservation is found in Ammonite such as Ammonite from the Cretaceous Gault clay of Folkestone in Kent, England. The Cretaceous Pierre Shale formation of the United States and Canada is well known for the abundant ammonite fauna it yields, including BaculitesPlacenticerasScaphitesHoploscaphitesand Jeletzkytesas well as many uncoiled forms. Many of these also have much or all of the original shell, as well as the complete body chamber, still intact. Ammonoidea - Wikipedia

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