Kevin, Hajar has you beat by several light years for choices of fossil hunting sites
Hajar;142770 said:Here's Figure 1 from the Seilacher paper. Well worth a read I think.
Admittedly, the arms shown in the cartoons(I) are unrealistic, but little more so than the arms in standard ammonite reconstructions.
Architeuthoceras;143609 said:So the Buccal Mass would be forward of these "Gizzard Plates and teeth"? And there would be a Beak and Radula?
What would be the function of the gizzard plates and teeth? Would they take the place of "gizzard stones"?
Architeuthoceras;143609 said:Correct me if I'm wrong, but most animals (at least vertebrates) with a gizzard, are herbivores using the gizzard to condition plant material before sending it to the stomach. Were (some) ammonoids herbivorous?
dwhatley;143610 said:Kevin, most octopus have a crop (but not some of the deep water ones I recently read) that I understand is sort of a holding facility for their one track, two-way digestive system (assuming I am understanding what I read correctly). Is that the same as a gizzard?