Description
These are Polished and Bulk Beautiful Orthoceras Cephalopods. Price is for one Fossil. These are animals related to the modern day octopus and squid. These creatures had a soft body and an internal “bullet shaped” structure that preserved as fossils. These creatures would lay down additional body segments as they grew. And it had a structure called a SIPHUNCLE that ran the length of the cone. The siphuncle could be pumped with air to keep the creature buoyant. These are found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
These are Polished and Bulk Beautiful Orthoceras Cephalopods. They very in size but a BONUS they have the tube structure visible and there are several more animals on the piece. The The tube structure is a part of the cephalopod that is a hollow tube running the length of the creature. Because it is a hard shelled animal it needs to be buoyant. So the cephalopod can pump air into the tube and thereby keep itself stable in the water.
Because they are related to octopus and squid they had the same types of arms, head and eyes. They were said to have great vision but as soft tissue rarely fossilizes we cannot determine that.
There is also one that has the siphucle visible.
Price is for ONE Polished Bulk Beautiful Orthoceras
Specimens in the picture is an example of the specimen. You will receive on similar to the one pictured.
We will choose the biggest and best one of the lot we have at that time to send to you.
The Orthoceras, or “straight horn” is an extinct cephalopod from the Ordovican Period, around 400 million years ago. These straight shelled nautiloids ranged in size from less than a centimeter to more than 14 feet long. Orthoceras was a predator, possibly eating little trilobites for a snack.
