How to pronounce “ammonite” in English

And they just asked a very simple question.What might these ammonites, these ancient cephalopods, have looked like when they were alive?And more importantly, what were they doing?

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Actually trying to recreate the animals and think, what would they have been doing?This particular animal up here is a kind of ammonite that grows a recurved shell sort of like a paperclip.And it's been puzzling scientists for a really long time thinking, what did they do?

And nobody really thought about those questions because they were just so useful as time stamps.And then this book was published in 2001 called "Ammonites." It's a really little book.It was published by a couple of people at the Natural History Museum in London.

straight shelled early cephalopods.And then this curl shelled cephalopod down here is a type of cephalopod called an ammonite that lived much later.That one actually lived in the oceans at the same time as dinosaurs were living on land.

And those fossils that are reliable enough to tell you the age of the rocks are digging in, those are called index fossils.And many, many index fossils are cephalopods or ammonites and the relatives of squid because they're so abundant, they're so diverse, and they're so easily recognized.A single shell can be identified to species quite easily by counting the ribs and figuring out various-- just taking morphometrics.

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This is not exactly to scale because I didn't have just sort of infinite room to go off here.And so looking at all of those different radulas is the main way that the paleontologists have begun to look at ammonite radulas, cephalopod radulas.

A dinosaur leaves-- interestingly, cephalopod fossils are actually way more abundant.So this is just a picture here of a single rock that's crammed with these coiled ammonites.These are ancient cephalopods that lived at around the same time as the dinosaurs with these coiled shells.

I went here. And there's this really kind of pathetic little memorial in the town center that says 60 million years ago, a big asteroid hit here.Other things went out, these awesome things called the ammonites, which basically had been swimming in the oceans for 300 million years.Some of them, at some points, got to be like eight feet wide.

So I'm interested in what appealed to you originally about geology and how you maintain that interest in the science over the past years?I wish I could tell you that my entry into geology was because of a passionate schoolboy love of ammonites or rocks.But it wasn't. I initially wanted to be a sailor.

quite sophisticated dinosaur made it through. These were the dinosaurs with feathers and wings that could flap those wings and fly. These were the birds. The only dinosaurs that have survivedthe present day. And many other animals died as well. The pterodactyls died. All the reptiles living in the oceans died. The ammonites, those beautiful, coiled shells. They died in the ocean.But, of course, some things survived. And among the survivors, in addition to birds were some tiny, furry, smart, feisty little creatures that could dig burrows and hide away and survive by

This is not exactly to scale because I didn't have just sort of infinite room to go off here.There. These guys. In particular, many of these ammonites had-- sorry.

with a hammer, standing on some mountain in Africa saying, see the world, be a geologist.And I thought well, if I can't tell red from green, maybe I can tell ammonites from graptolites.And so I took an O-level, which is an exam you take at 16, and passed it.