Yezoteuthis: a new giant squid fossil from Japan

[Snafflehound]

It wouldn't be the first time that different fossil finds, placed in different species, turned out with hindsight to be one and the same, ask apatosaurus, anomalocaris, even T-rex.

I predict that soon, it will be revealed that in fact, apatosaurus, anomalocaris, and T-Rex fossils all in fact do belong to the same animal, a prehistoric squid

 

[OB]

Dang Snafflehound, my "grand unified species theory" paper's still under review, don't you go blow the whistle like that!

 

[cuttlegirl]

Originally posted by Snafflehound
I predict that soon, it will be revealed that in fact, apatosaurus, anomalocaris, and T-Rex fossils all in fact do belong to the same animal, a prehistoric squid

Ancient squid had bones???

 

[Snafflehound]

Well, so did Piltdown Man and look where it got him.

 

[Phil]

And here it is, the beak of Yezoteuthis.

The image was obtained from this page. Automatic translation was too poor to be worth including here I'm afraid.

 

[main_board]

Amazing pictures of the beak! I can't believe how identical it looks like to modern squid beaks, given how long ago the thing lived! Something to be said for evolutionary conservation. Very cool!

Cheers!

 

[Phil]

Some very nice pictures of the beak of Yezoteuthis are now online here. Click 'next' for some interesting diagrams of ammonoid jaws compared to recent cephalopods.