Nayler's Common hosted cephalopods
/On the main path in Nayler's Common, you can find a cephalopod fossil! What is a cephalopod?
Cephalopods first appeared about 500 million years ago in the Upper Cambrian Period. Two groups of cephalopods exist today: The Nautiloidea with a few species of the pearly nautilus, and the Coleoidea, containing the squids, cuttlefishes, octopods and vampire squids
Read more about Nayler's Common and the going's-on there 500 million years later.
In Sept. of 1984, Percy Gray, living next door to Nayler’s Common discovered a limestone rock, which contained an invertebrate fossil. This “cephalopod'“ dates back to to the Paleozoic era, which spanned from 541 to 252 million years ago. It was a time of immense biological and geological change when much of Ontario was covered by an ocean. This marine creature was prolific on these marine environments, eventually buried in sand and fossilized. They are quite common in the limestone of our area.
