Fossils of extinct marine cephalopods

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Fossils of extinct marine cephalopods, ancestors to the squid and cuttlefish, from the Jurassic period. Belemnites paxillosus, B. digitalis, B. canaliculatus, B. acuminatus, B. pistilliformis and Actinocamax. Handcoloured lithograph by an unknown artist from Dr. Schmidt's "Petrefactenbuch," published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr. Schmidt's "Book of Petrification" introduced fossils and palaeontology to both the specialist and general reader.

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