Cuttlefish (Orthoceras) - extinct - Location: Atlas Mountains - Morocco. 6 hours working time are necessary to freizuklopfen a cephalopod of the bedrock surrounding him. Extremely hard granite rock. Age 300 million years. Difficult it is designed to find the rock, where a fossil is. Hundreds of stones are split in vain before you come across a Orthoceras. About 6 hours knock the locals with a small chisel out the Orthoceras from the granite rock. This bedrock on which the Orthoceras rests as on a pedestal, is the marine mud, which enveloped the dying Orthoceras over 300 million years. preserved as fossils are the living body of the cephalopods, which they like a worm her shell used. With an age of 300 million years, these fossils belong to the Palaeozoic and thus belong to an era that was far example, before the dinosaurs. Only particularly hard, indestructible rock can survive this long period. The Orthoceras Fossil acts of the nature of the material almost like metal. It is shiny black, very hard and has a metallic sound. The Orthoceras developed more than a half billion years. There were squid-like monster that reached a length of 5 meters in Ordovician. In later periods the cephalopods were much smaller. Muscular tentacles on its head earned him the name. They were good, fast swimmers and cruel, carnivorous predators. A unique relic from the ages of our oceans!
