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Scientists reconstruct strange ammonoid on 3D

Adam Khor · 2012-06-15 19:30:29

The name of the creature is Dissimilites: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300412001264?v=s5

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The name of the creature is Dissimilites:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300412001264?v=s5

Tagged:

3-d

reconstruction

cephalopod

dissimilites

ammonoid

chimaera

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#2 15-06-2012 09:50PM

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Dear God.

I didn't really need to sleep tonight anyway...

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#3 15-06-2012 09:55PM

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What an odd looking thing, but only about a foot long by the scale there. Very interesting. Wouldn't look out of place in the sea in modern times really.

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#4 15-06-2012 11:43PM

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Nothing is weird enough that it would look out of place in modern seas

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#5 16-06-2012 08:07PM

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That last one bears more than a passing resemblance to my ex when she was on her nagging spree. (Somewhere around 365 days of the year)

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#6 22-06-2012 01:06AM

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I wonder what the flexible looking tail was for.

PS: Adam, what is that first fish in your follow on post?

edit: Apparently its a chimaera/ Never seen one quite like that before.

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#7 22-06-2012 01:09AM

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Yeah it's a longnosed chimaera :>

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