As the scientists have now discovered, the shell change also affected the ammonoid embryos.
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Ammonoid diversity and disparity track episodes of chaotic carbon cycling during the early Mesozoic.
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Early evolutionary trends in ammonoid embryonic development.
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Ammonoid shells are common fossils, but few traces remain of the soft-bodied animals that inhabited them.
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Timing of the Early Triassic carbon cycle perturbations inferred from new U-Pb ages and ammonoid biochronozones.
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Nonetheless, much has been worked out by examining ammonoid shells and by using models of these shells in water tanks.
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The words ammonite and ammonoid are both used quite loosely in common parlance to refer to any member of subclass Ammonoidea.
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Previously ammonoid cephalopods barely survived several earlier major extinction events, often with only a few species surviving from which a multitude of forms diversified.
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Ammonite: one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks
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A group of extinct cephalopod molluscs with coiled shells. They lived in the seas during the Mesozoic Era. Their shells are divided into chambers. ...