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Ammonites Were Not in Decline Prior to End-Cretaceous Extinction, New Study Suggests


Paleontologists have analyzed the fossil record of ammonites through the Late Cretaceous epoch (100.5 to 66 million years ago), characterized by some scientists as an interval of decline prior to their total extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.

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