![]() That being said we've been up there with people from 7 to 70's age wise.Ĭongratulations to green ducks on being FTF. It is not really a steep climb but a steady climb. We've rated this as a terrain 4.5 as you have to cross a creek and it is about a 45 minute hike up the draw of a small tributary which may involve scrambling over or around a few rocks. To log this cache, do not post, but email answers.ģ) Facing uphill, what small earth event happened to the left of the fossil?Ĥ) What is the elevation at the ammonite? Also please respect the area as it is on private property. Ammonites are a completely extinct group of hard-shelled cephalopods, related to the modern-day squid, octopus, and nautilus. It is ok to access the ammonite but you are using the property at YOUR OWN RISK. There is a Private Property sign about 200 meters before the place to park. Please take only pictures and leave the area as found for others to enjoy. The ammonites became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period, at roughly the same time as the dinosaurs disappeared. The Jurassic Period began about 201 million years ago, and the Cretaceous ended about 66 million years ago. Together, these represent a time interval of about 140 million years. The world’s largest ammonite, Parapuzosia (P.) seppenradensis (Landois, 1895), fascinated the world ever since the discovery, in 1895, of a specimen of 1.74 metres (m) diameter near Seppenrade in Westfalia, Germany, but subsequent findings of the taxon are exceedingly rare and its systematic position remains enigmatic. This fossil dates back some150 million years when this area was a seabed.Īmmonites lived during the periods of Earth history known as the Jurassic and Cretaceous. This ammonite is one of the largest ammonite fossils ever found. This fossil was discovered in 1947 by Chuck Newmarch of the British Columbia Geological Survey. ROCKS, LOGS, SOILĪmmonites are the fossilized, hard shells of extinct mollusks.
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