Growth Rate and Ecology of the Giant Heteromorph Ammonite Diplomoceras maximum Using Stable Isotopes of Accretionary Shell Carbonate

• Main Author: Artruc, Emily G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ ESF 2016
• Subjects: Marine Biology; Seymour; Seymour Island; Lopez; Lopez de Bertodano; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.esf.edu/honors/112; https://digitalcommons.esf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=honors

Diplomoceras maximum is a large, hamitocone heteromorph ammonite with a shell that resembles a giant paperclip. A 1.5 meter long specimen representing more than 3 meters of linear shell growth from the late Cretaceous Lopez de Bertodano Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctica , now resides at the Pa...