fossilera: This is a really incredible, soft-bodied fossil that just arrived the other day from the
fossilera: This is a really incredible, soft-bodied fossil that just arrived the other day from the quarries near Hakel, Lebanon. They hadn’t seen anything quite like it from the quarry. We contacted several fossil cephalopod experts to help us ID it or see if it was potentially a new species. It was ID’d as the hook-bearing arm crown of Acanthoteuthis syriaca, a squid-like cephalopod with hooks on it’s arms. It certainly does not look like something I would want to tangle with in the water. Details at: https://www.fossilera.com/fossils/9-5-soft-bodied-hook-armed-cephalopod-acanthoteuthis-amazing -- source link
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