Ammonite
name: label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
label: Region
content: US High Plains and Rocky Mountains (ID, MT, ND, SD, WY, CO)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: Mesozoic - Cretaceous - Upper/Late
label: Notes
content: This ammonite fossil is identified as Scaphites sp. and is from the Upper Cretaceous period. Ammonites are a group of extinct marine molluscs. This ammonite fossil is mostly gray in color, and the shell has some iridescence to it. It measures around 3 cm x 2.8 cm x 1.3 cm in size.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Mar 2024
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: North America, United States, Wyoming, Big Horn County
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Scaphites
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO55436
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea, Ammonitida, Ancyloceratina, Scaphitidae, Scaphitinae