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Ammonite: Survived Three Mass Extinctions, Missed the Fourth by 66 Million Years

by Laura Konst
Ammonites survived for 335 million years, outlasting three separate mass extinctions that reshaped life on Earth. They disappeared in the fourth: the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that also ended the non-avian dinosaurs. Every Ammonite fossil in existence is the preserved shell of an animal from that vanished world, transformed from aragonite into stone through millions of years of geological processes.