Object Details
- Discipline
- Paleobiology
- Region
- US High Plains and Rocky Mountains (ID, MT, ND, SD, WY, CO)
- Description
- 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.
- Geologic Age
- Mesozoic - Cretaceous - Upper/Late
- 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.
- Number of objects in this record
- 1
- Record Last Modified
- 20 Mar 2024
- USNM Number
- EO55436
- Object Type
- Education and Outreach collections
- Collecting Locality
- North America, United States, Wyoming, Big Horn County
- Scientific Name
- Scaphites
- See more items in
- Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
- Taxonomy
- Animalia, Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea, Ammonitida, Ancyloceratina, Scaphitidae, Scaphitinae
- Topic
- Education & Outreach
- Record ID
- nmnheducation_10023051
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/34afa6692-b3f9-408d-90dc-cc53097171b6
