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Brad Warne posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoBrad Warne has contributed specimen mFeM 83586 to myFOSSIL!
Brad Warne posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 7 months ago
Brad Warne has contributed specimen mFeM 83586 to myFOSSIL!
I find many fossil images that show an structure exactly like this in ‘Nautiloid cephalopods’. Also in all anatomical drawings of orthocone cephalopods. It’s the siphuncle. The cavity are the camera.
I disagree. This isn’t the complete creature it’s only the part of the phragmocone that contains the the siphuncle and camera. Also there actually is no whorl as a gastropod would have. Look at the lines that demark the sections.
Hm. Well now I’m confused.
How big is this?
Thats a beautiful orthocone specimen! The septa and siphuncle are nicely preserved. I’m curious about the deposits lining the camerae. Are those cameral deposits or are they just artifacts of the mineralization process?
That’s an orthocone, and that’s final
@leonardo-miranda thank you
Dang.
The top half looks complete though, and it doesn’t end in a point like orthacones do
It is not complete. It doesn’t look complete. It is a portion of the animal’s anatomy. It is an interesting fossil because it clearly shows the internal structure of what made these animals unique
I just really don’t like orthacones. They’ve tried to eat me before.
@a-trilobite at least you evolved great eyesight before those calamari jerks did
@leonardo-miranda yeah those guys can be a real pain in the pygidium.