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This Ammonite Was Fossilized Outside Its Shell – The New York Times
The bizarre fossil is one of very few records of soft tissue in a creature better known as a whorled shell.
If anxious humans have nightmares of being naked in public, an anxious ammonite may have dreamed about swimming around without its shell, its soft body exposed to the elements and the leering eyes of predators.
For one unfortunate ammonite in the Late Jurassic, this was no dream but a harsh reality. The animal died utterly unclad, outside its whorled shell, and was buried this way. According to a study published recently in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, the ammonites death made it an extraordinary…
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