Roughly 200-million-year-old nautiloid fossil reportedly found in Missouri
A September 2026 post describes the fossil as a steinkern—an internal cast of an ancient relative of today’s nautiluses—with visible shell-chamber divisions and traces of a tube involved in buoyancy.
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A September 2026 post says an orthoconic nautiloid fossil was found in central Missouri. It describes an internal cast showing the divisions between shell chambers and traces of the siphuncle, a tube involved in controlling buoyancy. The post says enthusiasts paired the fossil with AI-generated images suggesting what the animal may have looked like.
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