Description
One intuitively chosen fossil.
Species: Orthoceras
Genus: Nautiloid Cephalopod
Age: Devonian Period
Location Found: Erfoud, Sahara Desert, Morocco
Orthoceras, meaning “Straight Horn”, was a cephalopod that lived more than 400 million years ago. Its name refers to the characteristic long, straight, conical shell these possessed. The soft body lived in the last open-ended segment at the large end of the conical shell, the preserved fossilised shell is all that remains.
