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WHAT IS AN AMMONITE?<\/h2>\n

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":"\nWHAT IS AN AMMONITE? | Dinosaurier Museum Altm\u00fchltal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dinosauriermuseum.de\/en\/am-info-17\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WHAT IS AN AMMONITE? | Dinosaurier Museum Altm\u00fchltal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dinosauriermuseum.de\/en\/am-info-17\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dinosaurier Museum Altm\u00fchltal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dinopark.bayern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-11T13:12:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dinosauriermuseum.de\/en\/am-info-17\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dinosauriermuseum.de\/en\/am-info-17\/\",\"name\":\"WHAT IS AN AMMONITE? 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