Ammonit.ru Website Review

Dozens of sites and groups on social networks tell about new discoveries in the field of paleontology, but most of them are devoted to dinosaurs, Vendobionts, human evolution and other popular topics. And cephalopod mollusks, even such remarkable ones as ammonites, pay very little attention to these reviews. Meanwhile, every year dozens of articles are published on their paleobiology and evolution. The past 2018 was no exception. Ammonit.ru publishes a review of publications on the paleobiology of fossil cephalopods, published in peer-reviewed journals (or accepted for publication) in 2018. An article Postmortem transport in fossil and modern shelled cephalopods has been published in PeerJ magazine on the possibility of the postmortem travels of ammonoid and nautiloid shells. Margaret Iacobucci, the author of this publication, has compiled a huge amount of data regarding the potential buoyancy of ammonite shells and their geographical distribution and concluded that neither for the Paleozoic nor the Mesozoic ammonoids there is any evidence of significant postmortem transfer of shells. The same applies to all modern nautilus - their shells (for