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Introduction
Imagine yourself standing on a bleak windswept Ordovician shore. It is 470 million years ago and you are standing on a rocky coastline staring out to sea. As you turn and pan the landscape behind you, all you can see are barren rocks, with no trees, plants or any form of animal...
So I went out this morning to look for some Eocene cephalopods.
There were corals, echinoids, gastropods, bivalves and finally a large weathered nautilid. Pretty little geckos looked on.
Here's an interesting thing; a 7 cm Early Devonian nautiloid from Eifel, Germany with a number of partially preserved large tubercles. It looks quite similar to Hercoceras though the height/width ratio of the whorls seems higher than in that genus. I like the painting by Jan Sovák.
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TONMO member Sordes has made some excellent clay models of nautiloids. Can't wait to see them painted!
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Well I think they are brilliant! Well done Sordes!
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