Paleontology of Ancient Crimea: Ammonites, Brachiopods and Dinosaurs / What Do Scientists Say?
The Crimean land preserves a large number of fossils - traces of ancient living organisms. Among them, marine inhabitants predominate, reminding us that our land area developed underwater for many millions of years.
Of the cephalopods, ammonites, nautiluses and belemnites are common.
Gastropods, also known as snails, are also found in ancient geological layers. Paleontologists do not say "snails", preferring the term "gastropods".
Bivalves also lived in our Mesozoic era. Their fossilized remains are also well known to anyone who looks closely at what lies under their feet. You walk along a path, and under your feet is an ancient oyster. In Crimea, this is a common thing.
Lovers of finds regularly add brachiopods to their collections. Their shells were equipped with tentacles, which were used to deliver food to the digestive system.
Another guest from the past is the nummulites. Giant single-celled organisms that look like a coin. There are so many of them that they are of no particular value to collectors.
Corals, sea urchins, fish teeth, including sharks - all of this is also found by researchers. And among the larger and more interesting fossils, fragments of mosasaur jaws are known, discovered near the Inkerman quarry at the foot of the Zagaitan rock.