I found by chance the site of an austrian artist who works for museums like the museum of natural history in Vienna. His work is really amazing, especially the models of nautiloids and Phragmoceras: http://members.aon.at/leitl/Pages_Modelle/Modelle_Main.html

You are right, some of those are really incredible...very nice !

Greg

thats not what i was thinking when you said "Model"
booooo
:)

thats not what i was thinking when you said "Model"
booooo
:)

Erich, you blew my chance to respond to this with "you were expecting something more like this" and linking to a picture of a scantily clad dancer with an ammonite for a head. I thought for certain it could be found on eatenbysquid.com, but no... the closest I got was fish heads (http://www.rebeccaroka.com/squish_imgs/img23.jpg)... Is it easier to get sexy models to wear bat heads (http://www.rebeccaroka.com/imgs/img2.jpg)
than ammonite headgear (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/cthulhu77/tonmo/deepones.jpg)?

Yes, Monty. The prototype Ammonite headdresses were rather ungainly and badly-balanced - I think Rabid Squid can vouch for that - and any further use of prehistoric cephs in future shows might be more along marrionette lines. Sorry if you got led astray!

I was afraid our dancers might fall over backwards and break something with those on, particularly if they'd had anything to drink...:beer: :glass: :heteromor :ammonite:

Those are stunning Sordes, amnd thanks for sharing them with us. I had not seen those before, they really bring these ancient cephs to life. Here are direct links to the cephalopods:

http://members.aon.at/leitl/Pages_Modelle/Cephalopode2.html

http://members.aon.at/leitl/Pages_Modelle/Trachyceras.html

http://members.aon.at/leitl/Pages_Modelle/Phragmoceras1.html

Phragmoceras is rather whimsical, but who can really say if the artist is wrong? Lovely pieces of art.