Dream of the Double Didy
Dozens of kinds of ammonites are found in the Cretaceous marine rocks that occur in the Rocky Mountain region. For more than 20 million years this area was covered by an inland sea and the result is an amazing record of evolution. Didymoceras ammonites were bizarrely shaped 'heteromorphs' with twisting shells with open coils. Ammonite lovers around the world find the exquisitely shaped heteromorphs particularly inspiring. Artists like myself often dream of them at night, dancing above our beds, spiraling in slow motion, much to the annoyance of our better halves.
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