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Ammonite fossil, Dichotomosphinctes sp. Madagascar, Upper Jurassic in our Tentacles special exhibition.
Ammonite fossils at an Aquarium staffer’s desk.
‘Night of the Ammonites’, © Ray Troll, 2000 — on display in our Tentacles exhibition.
For the last day of International Cephalopod Awareness Days: Cheers to the cephalopods that once reigned our ancient seas! 🎉
Thanks to the fossil record, more than 17,000 species of extinct shelled cephalopods have been identified, like the three ammonites in the photos above. Compared to the 800+ shell-less species alive today, the ocean used to have one shell of a lot of cephalopods!
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