[Non-Ceph] Bits 'n Pieces

[Cephalopodia]

Hmm I found the fossil within a fossil part very interesting..!

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Four Winged Dinosaur on NOVA tomorrow night.


There really should be something on fossil cephs like this.

 

[Architeuthoceras]

The Mother of all Cephalopods will one day grace these pages.

The only trouble is finding it.

 

[monty]

here's to that

 

[Echioceras]

What would the Mother of all Cephalopods look like?

 

[Architeuthoceras]

A shell? maybe like Plectronoceras?

Which came first, the Nautilus or the shell?

I'll tell you when and if I find it.

 

[Echioceras]

4 Perfect Brachiopods

Sorry to break from the current conversation,
just happy because, on further excavation of the hole left by the bivalve I found in my garden yesterday, I found 4 perfect brachiopods, just a few centimeters below! Here's a picture:

Hmm.. Nautilus or the shell? I'd say Nautilus (or it's a rhetorical question).

 

[dreadhead]

What would the Mother of all Cephalopods look like?

Like Cuthulhu with breasts?

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Evolution

 

[Phil]

Who would have thought, a Devonian anomalocaridid? Meet the intriging Schinderhannes bartelsi. It certainty helps plug a gap:

Origin of claws seen in 390-million-year-old fossil

 

[monty]

Thanks, Phil!

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/02/schinderhannes_bartelsi.php

has the reconstruction from the paper and a good summary as well.

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Geology, February 2010 Snails

 

[DWhatley]

(I know the second one is labeled party but my intent is to toot a horn )

 

[cuttlegirl]

Impressive!

 

[monty]

congrats!