Cretaceous cuttlefish
| Description: |
Most things that are preserved in the fossil record are known to geologists simply as “hard parts.” These are things like teeth, bones and shells – items that are more durable and much more likely to survive as fossils. But every once in a while a specimen is preserved of a soft bodied creature – like this specimen from the Cretaceous rocks of Lebanon. This fossil is of a cuttlefish, a relative of the octopus and squid. The remains of this creature were buried underneath fine grain sediments and preserved in remarkable detail. |
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| Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/tcm/id/291 |
| Collection: |
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
This file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. |
| Subjects: |
Fossils Cephalopoda Cephalopoda, Fossil Cuttlefish Marine animals, Fossil Lebanon Paleontology -- Cretaceous |
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