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This is Orthoceras, Devonian from Morocco. It is over 350 million years old ... Orthoceras was an ancient mollusk that lived more than 400 million years ago. The name means straight horn, referring to the characteristic long, straight, conical shell. The preserved shell is all that remains of this ancestor of our modern-day squid.
Fossilised in rock ...
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