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Miscellaneous
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Ammoniet Fossiel
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H=3,5 en B=4 cm
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Ammonites lived approximately between 240 and 65 million years ago. Ammonites were predatory mollusks that resembled squid. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles and spiral shells. They are more closely related to a living octopus, although the shells resemble those of a nautilus. Ammonites first appeared in the fossil record 240 million years ago, descendants of straight-shelled cephalopods. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.

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