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Unusual Cephalopod With Excellent Color
OTHER CEPHALOPODS
Stock Number XIAOC10

Name:   Lituites littuus
Age:  Ordovician
Formation:  Lituites Layers
Location:  China
Size:  Cephalopod is 7.2 inches long
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Here is a wonderful specimen of Lituites littuus from the Ordovician of China. This ''strange'' nautiloid starts growing in a coiling pattern and then straightens out. This cephalopod is very 3-dimensionally preserved and exhibits fine detail. The inner whorls of the coiled portion are clearly defined. The primitive, straight-line sutures are quite evident and the individual body chambers are easily seen. The specimen has excellent grayish-white color and contrasts well with the reddish-brown matrix. It is nicely centered on the rectangular block of matrix that has been semi-polished to make it more attractive. This is a very aesthetic specimen of this unusual semi-coiled nautiloid.