12" Ammonite Slice (with stand) cf2bff26373524caf34f48ce6edeace0 Simultaneously

Simultaneously

perhaps some of the fastest dinosaurs to exist

It is during this time that sea stars (from the class Asteroidea) and brittle stars (from the class Ophiuroidea) diverged

In this area

Emerging in North Africa ~ 35 million years ago during the late Eocene period

12" Ammonite Slice (with stand) cf2bff26373524caf34f48ce6edeace0 SimultaneouslyAmmonites are an extinct group of marine animals in the Cephalopoda class. They are invertebrates and are more closely related to coleoids (squids, octopus, and cuttlefish) than they were to the chambered nautilus, even though they looked much more similar to the later. The name Ammonite was derived from "ammonis cornua," translated to mean Horns of Ammon. Ammon was an Egyptian god that was typically depicted wearing ram horns, whose spiraled shape is