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Object Type:
Education and Outreach collections
Collecting Locality:
North America, United States, Wyoming, Big Horn County
Description:
This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
Geologic Age:
Mesozoic - Cretaceous - Upper/Late
Notes:
This ammonite fossil is identified as Scaphites sp. and is from the Upper Cretaceous period. Ammonites are a group of extinct marine molluscs. This ammonite fossil is mostly gray in color, and the shell has some iridescence to it. It measures around 3 cm x 2.8 cm x 1.3 cm in size.