#cephalopods — Public Fediverse posts

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

🦑 NEW: A #fossil found in #Wyoming three decades ago is now identified as a new #belemnite species, "Wyoteuthis linsterorum", a 160-million-year-old relative of #squid and #octopus.

Its internal shell was unusually wide, suggesting a body nearly 60 cm long, and it belongs to a family thought long extinct. CT scanning of two specimens showed the #animal hunted smaller #cephalopods and possibly its own kind.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/chunky-jurassic-squid-fossil-wyoming/

#paleontology #jurassic #science #nature #evolution #prehistoric #museum

New study on #palaeobiology and #taphonomy of #epizoans on #orthoconic shells from the Lower #Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany including new occurrences of possible parasitic pits on non-ammonoid #cephalopods https://doi.org/10.1127/pala/2023/0142 #Paleontology #Fossils #EcologicalInteractions