Carboniferous Nautiloid


Fossil shell of an extinct nautiloid cephalopod (Orthoceras laterale) that lived during the Carboniferous Period. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition.


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Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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