3.9" Jurassic Belemnite (Passaloteuthis) Fossil - Germany

Jurassic Belemnite (Passaloteuthis) Fossil - Germany #199267

Here is a fossil belemnite (Passaloteuthis paxillosus) from the Jurassic age, Posidonia Shale of Holzmaden, Germany. This belemnite was prepped free of the shale it was found in, and is mounted to this section of shale that comes from the same locale.

There is a repaired crack through the belemnite.

Belemnites are probably the most well known extinct cephalopod after the ammonites. They lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are fairly common fossils found throughout the world. They had a hard, internal, cone-shaped structure that is often preserved as a fossil, though it is not technically a shell. They had ten arms but, unlike modern squid, these arms had small hooks instead of suckers.