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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..

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ANCIENT OCTOPUS: KEUPPIA

A sweet as you please example of Keuppia levante (Fuchs, Bracchi & Weis, 2009), an extinct genus of octopus that swam our ancient seas back in the Cretaceous. The dark black and brown area you see here is his ink sac which has been preserved for a remarkable 95 million years.This cutie is in the family Palaeoctopodidae, and one of the earliest representatives of the order Octopoda — and perhaps

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