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Ammonites

The display of ammonites or "rams' horn" shells is divided in 3 columns, oldest to the left and youngest to the right. They are the most useful group on which to judge the ages of fossil beds containing them.  These had rasping tongues or radulae very like that of a squid.
Ammonites display
Ammonite
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