Michelinoceras sp., Chambered shell
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Description:
A broken Michelinoceras specimen with visible chambers. Mineral crystals can be seen lining the chambers. This specimen is possibly Ordovician in age.
- Site: Europe
- Site Number: NH8
- Era: Paleozoic
- Period: Ordovician
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Cephalopoda
- Order: Orthocerida
- Family: Michelinoceratidae
- Genus: Michelinoceras
- Species: Michelionceras sp.
- Collection: Invertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Cephalopods
- Object Id: PI3032
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