One Baculites specimen – AMNH 66253 – contained the remains of several small invertebrates inside the buccal mass. Portions of several small isopods and a larval snail were preserved in the mouth area ...

Millions of years ago, a squidlike creature called an ammonite died with the remains of its last meal wedged between its teeth. Now, new high-tech images reveal that meal — a mini-snail and three tiny ...

Powerful synchrotron scans of Baculites fossils found on American Museum of Natural History expeditions to the Great Plains suggests that the extinct group of marine invertebrates to which they belong ...

This release is available in French. Scientists have discovered direct evidence of the diet of one of the most important group of ammonites, distant relatives of squids, octopuses and cuttlefishes.

Cobban, Kennedy. 1993. Jour.Paleontology. 67 (n.1): 75, f.6.2-4.

They ruled the seas for 300 million years and even today are easy to find as fossils, but it’s only now that we’ve discovered what ammonites ate. It turns out these “shelled squid” relied on tiny ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This specimen is a Baculite. Baculites is an extinct genus of marine mollusk that lived during most of the Late ...

13.62 x 10.63 in. (34.6 x 27 cm.) ...