{"id":2032,"date":"2026-09-14T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-14-wyoming-chunky-belemnite-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T01:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:10:00","slug":"2026-09-14-wyoming-chunky-belemnite-en","status":"publish","type":"briefing","link":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-14-wyoming-chunky-belemnite-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming fossils reveal the thickest known belemnite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2026-09-14 01:10 KST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new Jurassic species has the broadest belemnite guard yet described, far wider than common Wyoming examples.<\/p>\n<p>Only the hard internal guard is preserved; the living animal is estimated at about 60 cm including arms.<\/p>\n<h2>Difference<\/h2>\n<p>Typical guards are 1\u20132 cm wide; this one reached 6 cm while about 10 cm long.<\/p>\n<h2>Evidence<\/h2>\n<p>CT scans exposed internal features linking it to a lineage thought to have vanished earlier.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wyoming-chunky-belemnite-en.png\" alt=\"Wyoming fossils reveal the thickest known belemnite\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption class=\"op-briefing-image-caption\">This AI-generated image explains the topic; it is not a photograph of the actual site, experiment, animal or fossil.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Two fossils<\/h2>\n<p>A second donated specimen supported a species diagnosis rather than one malformed individual.<\/p>\n<h2>Ecology<\/h2>\n<p>Predation on smaller belemnites is plausible but remains a hypothesis without gut contents or attack traces.<\/p>\n<h2>Next<\/h2>\n<p>More fossils are needed to distinguish growth, sex, variation and geographic range.<\/p>\n<h2>Primary source and independent checks<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/api.crossref.org\/works\/10.1002\/spp2.70123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Papers in Palaeontology \uc6d0 \ub17c\ubb38 \uc11c\uc9c0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/about\/news\/peculiar-new-species-of-jurassic-squid-found-in-wyoming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\ub9e8\uccb4\uc2a4\ud130\ub300\ud559\uad50 \uc5f0\uad6c \ubc1c\ud45c<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e3.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1143290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EurekAlert \uacf5\uac1c \uac80\uc99d \uc694\uc57d<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Read in other languages<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-14-wyoming-chunky-belemnite-ko\/\">\ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-14-wyoming-chunky-belemnite-en\/\">English<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-14-wyoming-chunky-belemnite-es\/\">Espa\u00f1ol<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-14-wyoming-chunky-belemnite-ja\/\">\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-14-wyoming-chunky-belemnite-vi\/\">Ti\u1ebfng Vi\u1ec7t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two 160-million-year-old fossils define Wyoteuthis linsterorum, with a barrel-shaped guard up to 6 cm wide. That width is not the animal\u2019s total body size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-2032","briefing","type-briefing","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/briefing\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/briefing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/briefing"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}