What is that on the plate above the plate with the belemnite? (in the upper right photo) It looks like a cephalopod beak. If the belemnite plate is ~30cm, that beak is ~30cm
I can't believe how thick the arms are on that belemnite. That species must have looked really round and squat if the body was equally bulbous. Really strange.
Yes, what is that peculiar fossil slab on the well? I really can't think of anything that fits the bill (or beak).
I think the fossil over the belemnite is some kind of gladius. I did not look very exactly what it was, because I was far more interested in the belemnite (which was really hard to photograph threw the glass). I will check my books which covers also the collections of this museum. Perhaps I´ll find out what species it was. I was mainly interested in the special exhibition of the museum, which showed many life-sized reconstructions of extinct local animals, among them two huge prehistoric sea-dioramas. Sadly most of the original museum exhibition was closed, and I had not much time, so I could not make as much photos of cephalopods I had made normally.
Today I visited again the collection of the paleontological Institute of Tübingen and found again many "treasures" from which I wanted to show some photos.
You can see a super-huge fossil Aptychus, a rare fossil gladius of Beloteuthis, some very nice micro-nautiloids and orthocones.
The fossil on the slab above the slab with the belemnite is a fossil teuthoid (= squid).
The black spot in the middle of the fossil is the fossilized ink sac.
Thank you all.
We went to Germany just last week, and (amongst other things) found one squid which turned out to be a tree, and one tree which turned out to be a squid. Looking nothing alike in life, they can actually look very much alike when found fossilized in Dotternhausen, lol. (Too bad though, since the one I found was the tree and not the squid).
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