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Soft-tissue Attachment of Middle Triassic Ceratitida from Germany

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Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives

Soft-tissue attachment structures were found in various molluscs from the marls and limestones of the German Muschelkalk (Anisian, Ladinian). For instance, bivalves often display the sites where the adductors and the pallium were attached (e.g., Klug et al., 2005). For the nautiloid Germanonautilus, Klug and Lehmkuhl (2004) documented the attachment scars of the cephalic retractors which sometimes are preserved in great detail. Although representatives of the Ceratitida are very common (at least in some beds of some localities), soft-tissue attachment sites have never been described and figured previously. Muscle attachment scars (the dorsal and ventral scars) were listed as “unpublished observations” by Doguzhaeva and Mutvei (1996: 54), but, as far as we know, they never published these “observations” in greater detail.

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Klug, C., Montenari, M., Schulz, H., Urlichs, M. (2007). Soft-tissue Attachment of Middle Triassic Ceratitida from Germany. In: Landman, N.H., Davis, R.A., Mapes, R.H. (eds) Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6806-5_10

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