{"id":40751,"date":"2024-07-11T15:08:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinosauriermuseum.de\/?page_id=40751"},"modified":"2024-07-11T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:12:01","slug":"am-info-17","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dinosauriermuseum.de\/en\/am-info-17\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS AN AMMONITE?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ammonites are extinct relatives of squid. Like today’s octopus, they had tentacles, a large eye and a body from which the animal could expel water in order to move backwards in a jerky motion.<\/p>\n
The first ammonites are found in rocks that were deposited in the sea 400 million years ago.<\/p>\n
They then dominated life in the world’s oceans for an unimaginable 360 million years.<\/p>\n
However, their era came to an end 66 million years ago: at exactly the same time as the dinosaurs became extinct after a huge meteorite impact, the last ammonite also disappeared.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40751","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n