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drbush Regular Member

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Hi friends ,Happy new year , can you help me with this ,I went to Jubaila area, mid.Jurassic , to the north of Riyadh and found this large nautilus it was stuck to a hard rock layer , it is 36 cm wide ,21 cm high and  12 cm thick  but this not the question , the question is what is the bead like structure in the 2nd photo ????

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TqB Regular Member

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Presumably the siphuncle. (Fine specimen!)

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drbush Regular Member

drbush

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siphuncle ?

 

Rockwood Regular Member

Rockwood

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It's easy to imagine their function in life facilitating such a preservation. 

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Tidgy's Dad Regular Member

Tidgy's Dad

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Nice find.:)

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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fossisle Regular Member

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Wow awesome find!!

Cephalopods rule!!

FossilDAWG Regular Member

FossilDAWG

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That's pretty cool.  I don't recall seeing anything like that before.

 

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