Gigantism
This week's Saturday Timewatch goes back approximately 150 million years, give or take a few million either side. I'll stress as always that I am very far from a fossil expert. However, I think this is the imprint / mould of Titanites giganteus, a giant ammonite that swam in what were then tropical seas. The photo was taken in a Portland quarry. It was physically difficult to get up to the huge boulder so I was looking up at the fossil remains. However, I won't have been too far off when estimating the size of the fossil to have been not much less than my height, 5' 10".......maybe around 5'?
Gigantism
This week's Saturday Timewatch goes back approximately 150 million years, give or take a few million either side. I'll stress as always that I am very far from a fossil expert. However, I think this is the imprint / mould of Titanites giganteus, a giant ammonite that swam in what were then tropical seas. The photo was taken in a Portland quarry. It was physically difficult to get up to the huge boulder so I was looking up at the fossil remains. However, I won't have been too far off when estimating the size of the fossil to have been not much less than my height, 5' 10".......maybe around 5'?