It is one of the most common ammonites present at Whitby. This example has a carved snake's head. St Hilda's miraculous work was immortalised in the poem Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott: The legend of ...
But ammonites weren't reptiles: they were ocean-dwelling molluscs, specifically cephalopods. An ammonite fossil with a carved snake's head Zoë Hughes, Curator of Fossil Invertebrates at the Museum, ...
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