Four new "octopusses" from CollectA 2020

The right description of these four must be "Cephalopods" , but I can never remember that word
In English they are called octopusses, squid, cuttlefish, inkfish, blackfish, nautilus..... in Danish they are all blæksprutter, and I never learn to distinguish.
In spite of that, I really find them fascinating, and almost as smart as monkeys,  and do not like to eat them.  

These four that CollectA launched this year, however, are/were probably not very intelligent, but still I would not recommend that anybody eat them !
Three of them only exist as fossiles, and the fourth ( Nautilus) is a threatened species  

These are not models we see very often in the western brands.
Bullyland made a handfull , and Safari recently made on also... more ?

Here they are, my new beauties from CollectA 
Aren't they wonderful ?
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First  Pleuroceras Ammonite item no 88902
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A beautyful and detailed model
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Unfortunately the inside of the tentacles are full of letters  
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Compared to one of the "Fossiles" from Bullyland.
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A nice Orthoceras, item no 88902
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A nice model, but as the animal was not very complex to look at, the model is also rather simple.
It is my first model of this kind of animal
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The Belamnite, item no 88904 , reminds me of a squid, but the belemnite had 10 arms and no tentakles.
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Here compared to the belemnite from Bullyland, two beautyful torpedoes
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Last, but certainly not least, the wonderful Nautilus Paompilius  
This one can still be found, but unforyunatley it is so beautyful that the shell is being used for souvenirs and as jewelry  
We can hope that this will be stopped so this gorgeous and unusual creature does not end as a fossile only also  
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The model is magnificent !!!
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The nautilus has lots of "tentacles" which are not tentacles, but "cirri" !
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Look at all the detail !!!!!
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I couldn't stop taking pictures  
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My only other nautilus is from Bullyland :
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I found this video about the Nautilus, and think it is very informative ( at least for dummies like me )


There is a horseshoe crab and a tribolite in the same series.
I do not have them, but should anybody want to show them here, you are welcome

Oh what a tentacle dream! Big congrats and thank you for sharing!

They are all truly AMAZING and the nautilus which is one my wishlist is just perfect

Oh, I want them all!

WOW Susanne, really four nice animals. In my list now.

Wow, the Nautilus really is a masterpiece. But it's larger than I expected
Now, I have to make more space for it...

These figures are wonderful :)

I considered some of these, but they are all a bit too big for my tastes. I made an exception for the horseshoe crab and trilobite because, well, you know.

By the way, I found out, that the Bullyland Nautilus could be another species. It shares many similarities with the Palau Nautilus. It lacks the black stripes on the shell and the head plate also has the same structure on the top:
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bmathison1972 wrote:

I considered some of these, but they are all a bit too big for my tastes. I made an exception for the horseshoe crab and trilobite because, well, you know.

Yes, I know

Megaptera wrote:

By the way, I found out, that the Bullyland Nautilus could be another species. It shares many similarities with the Palau Nautilus. It lacks the black stripes on the shell and the head plate also has the same structure on the top:
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WOW ! Interesting

I also need to find the Bullyland, and it could be another species so that's even better!

It was an interesting and good choice of Collecta , to go with models of these creatures this year.
And I am happy to see them on real, with your wonderful photos .
Thank you Susanne !
And they look nice. Not very spectacular with colours ( for these sizes) , but definitely a nice models :)

Thankyou, Kosta