So You Think Missing Links Don't Exist? Episode 1: Nautiloids

. Today, they are represented by the living Nautilus. The Nautiloids flourished during the early Paleozoic era, where they constituted the main predatory animals, and developed an extraordinary diversity of shell shapes and forms. As of today, some 2500 species of fossil nautiloids are known, but only a handful of species have survived. Nautiloids are often found as fossils in early Paleozoic rocks. The shells of fossil nautiloids may be either straight (such as orthoconic as in Orthoceras ...
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