From the middle Jurassic around 164 million years ago, putting it smack in the middle of the age of dinosaurs.
That’s not what is in the image you posted which is a protoceroctopus. Your link also states
Although it was originally identified as an extinct cephalopod,[1] later studies denied that interpretation.
Yeah! I was reading it, really interesting creature. Was hoping other people could comment more on it.
I thought soft-tissue didn’t fossilise. Cephalopods don’t have skeletons, then what exactly is getting fossilised here?
Happened all the time. It just depends on the environment. Check out basically anything on the “Tully monster” if you want to know more.
Tully monsters are actually even older than OPs fossil and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, from an evolutionary perspective.
I know those guys and know what happened to them
They were my creations in Spore and went extinct after trying to sing their way into the heart of some purple, venomous, bipedal creature
This is only a few centimeters big. There’s no way it could predate on dinosaurs… /s
Im still convinced they are not native to earth and just landed here on an asteroid
We’re their ant farm
