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About Jura Museum

The Jura Museum located in Willibaldsburg fortress within the metropolis of Eichstatt, Germany, is a natural history museum that has an intensive exhibit of Jurassic fossils from the quarries of Solnhofen and environment, along with marine reptiles, pterosaurs, and one specimen of the early chook Archaeopteryx. The ultra-modern acquisition of the museum is the properly preserved skeleton of the coelurosaur Juravenator.

The museum additionally has an aquarium, with several huge tanks displaying tropical fish and corals, in addition to Nautilus. The nautilus is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole extant circle of relatives of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but close to identical suborder, Nautilina. It accommodates six dwelling species in two genera, the kind of that's the genus Nautilus.

Though it more particularly refers to species Nautilus pompilius, the call chambered nautilus is likewise used for any of the Nautilidae. Nautilidae, both extant and extinct, are characterized by using involute or greater or much less convolute shells which can be typically easy, with compressed or depressed whorl sections, instantly to sinuous sutures, and a tubular, commonly relevant siphuncle.

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