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Belemnites

Photo by Namitha
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Description:

"Belemnoids / Belemniites are an extinct group of marine cephalopod, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related[1] to the modern cuttlefish. Like them, the belemnoids possessed an ink sac,[2] but, unlike the squid, they possessed ten arms of roughly equal length, and no tentacles.[3] The name "belemnoid" comes from the Greek word belemnon meaning "a dart or arrow" and the Greek word eidos meaning "form"."
Ref:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belemnoidea

Notes:

This belemnite fossils are from Utathoor, Trichi, Tamil Nadu. But I am not sure where the exact place is, in the map. It was a wonder seeing these beautiful 'bullet like' fossils.
These prehistoric wonders are from the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era.

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