Orthoceras sp., Nautiloid shell
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Description:
A specimen of Orthoceras, a shelled cephalopod.
- Site: DE; Water Gap
- Site Number: NH99B
- Era: Paleozoic
- Period: Devonian
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Cephalopoda
- Order: Orthocerida
- Family: Orthoceratidae
- Genus: Orthoceras
- Collection: Invertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Cephalopods
- Object Id: PI2840
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