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Costidiscus

Costidiscus

On course for extinction

Ammonites sometimes look very similar to each other thanks to their history spanning over 300 million years. They have a planispiral shell more or less marked with ridges and tubercles. Yet they can be classified also on the basis of inner characters, so that there is never a perfect repetition. As a result, this ammonite from the Cretaceous period may always be distinguished from its ancestors.

Main category:
Geology
Subcategory:
Fossils
Epoch:Cretaceous
Area(s):Selva GardenaPuez
GPS coordinates:@11.80055,46.59056

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Der Paläontologe Prof. Andrea Tintori erklärt in dieser Videoserie was uns die Fossilien der geo-paläontologischen Sammlung des Museums Gherdëina von der Entstehung der Dolomiten erzählen.