Impression: A shallow imprint of a fossil organism that does not retain any organic material.
Compression: A fossil that has been crushed or flattened but retains some organic material, although it has been chemically altered.
Carbonization: A process that occurs during fossilization in which complex organic molecules are converted into a more stable carbon compound that generally has a dark brown color.
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rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 1y
From the middle Jurassic around 164 million years ago, putting it smack in the middle of the age of dinosaurs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteroctopus
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 1y
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 1y
That's not what is in the image you posted which is a protoceroctopus. Your link also states
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
Maroon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y
There are different types of fossils, some of which apply to soft tissue:
Impression: A shallow imprint of a fossil organism that does not retain any organic material.
Compression: A fossil that has been crushed or flattened but retains some organic material, although it has been chemically altered.
Carbonization: A process that occurs during fossilization in which complex organic molecules are converted into a more stable carbon compound that generally has a dark brown color.
This appears to be an impression fossil.
Geodad@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y
Happened all the time. It just depends on the environment. Check out basically anything on the "Tully monster" if you want to know more.
Tully monsters are actually even older than OPs fossil and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, from an evolutionary perspective.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
Ok.
I mean, there were weird things in the waters at the time and those grabber noses(?) were all the hype.
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Iirc the closest modern day relative is some form of sea slug. How you go from spore to slug has got to be a wild journey
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
I know those guys and know what happened to them
They were my creations in Spore and went extinct after trying to sing their way into the heart of some purple, venomous, bipedal creature
skrlet13@feddit.cl · 9 pts · 1y
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Im still convinced they are not native to earth and just landed here on an asteroid
TheTurner@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 1y
That's specifically octopi, right? Because there were cephalopods around that lived through the Great Dying.
anzo@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
This is only a few centimeters big. There's no way it could predate on dinosaurs... /s
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
We're their ant farm
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
That's only it's head. To understand the entire being, imagine it with a humanoid body attached.
Like this
confluence@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
My Octopus Teacher