Coiled Chambered Shell

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Goniatites are extinct ammonoids, shelled cephalopods related to squid, octopus, and belemnites, that form the order Goniatitida. The goniatites all possessed an external shell, which is divided internally into chambers. The animal lived in the largest of the external chambers, and the internal chambers would have been filled with gas, making the animal buoyant in the water.

Keywords

shell, shells, Fossils, Goniatites Allei, Goniatites

Galleries

Squid, Octopus, and Nautilus

Source

Winchell, Alexander Sketches of Creation (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1870)

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