Fossilized ink-sac of vampyropod (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Fossilized ink-sac of vampyropod

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Lead author Sinjini Sinha holds a fossilized ink sac of a vampyropod, a squid-like animal. The black portion is the ink sac. The white portion is the tissue surrounding the sac. The fossil is from the Strawberry Bank fossil deposit in the United Kingdom.

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The University of Texas at Austin/ Jackson School of Geosciences

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