====== Interesting Fossil ======

<wrap lo>Tuesday July 24, 2012</wrap>

My son Chris located a very unique fossil in the Camden, Ohio area.

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On initial examination, I thought that it might be several fossils, but after looking at it hands-on, I believe that it is actually a single organism. It looks like we have a distinct, rather large, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician|Ordovician cephalopod]] fossil.

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The larger half is the shell, which has split and/or been flattened.

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The smaller half is actually an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocast|endocast]] (internal mold), and the shell has been lost from this section.

Quite an interesting specimen!

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