Prehistoric Life Prehistoric Secrets in Stone The Earliest Fossils The Silurian Reef Trilobites Fish The Coal Forests Early Reptiles and Amphibians Sea Reptiles Flying Reptiles The Teeming Seas Hunting Dinosaurs Biggest Dinosaurs Two-Footed Plant Eaters Plated and Armoured Dinosaurs Horned Dinosaurs The Mammal Age Dawns Grassland Mammals The Ice Age	Octopus The earliest octopus fossil was found in Jurassic rocks. It is unusual for an octopus - an animal without a shell or skeleton - to be fossilised.   Previous: Back Book: Prehistoric Life Section: Prehistoric Chapter: The Teeming Seas