the Cambrian, cephalopods are most common in shallow near-shore environments, but they have been found in deeper waters too. Cephalopods were thought to...
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species of cephalopods have been identified. Two important extinct taxa are the Ammonoidea (ammonites) and Belemnoidea (belemnites). Extant cephalopods range...
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is truly convergent evolution or parallel evolution. Unlike the vertebrate camera eye, the cephalopods' form as invaginations of the body surface (rather...
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difficult to measure in nonhuman animals, cephalopods are the most intelligent invertebrates. The study of cephalopod intelligence also has an important comparative...
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Coleoidea (redirect from Soft-bodied cephalopods)
(August 2011). "Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules: Extant cephalopods are younger than...
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Goniatite (category Prehistoric cephalopod orders)
Goniatids, informally goniatites, are ammonoid cephalopods that form the order Goniatitida, derived from the more primitive Agoniatitida during the Middle...
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Ammonitida (category Cephalopod orders)
Ammonitida or "True ammonites" are an order of ammonoid cephalopods that lived from the Jurassic through Paleocene time periods, commonly with intricate...
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Orthoceratidae (category Prehistoric cephalopod families)
Orthoceratidae is an extinct family of actively mobile carnivorous cephalopods, subclass Nautiloidea, that lived in what would be North America, Europe...
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Plectronoceras (category Cambrian molluscs of North America)
of cephalopod evolution", in Wilbur, Karl M.; Clarke, M.R.; Trueman, E.R. (eds.), The Mollusca, vol. 12. Paleontology and neontology of Cephalopods,...
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Endocerida (category Ordovician cephalopods)
a group of cephalopods from the Lower Paleozoic with cone-like deposits in their siphuncle. Endocerida was a diverse group of cephalopods that lived...
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Orthoceras (redirect from Orthoceras (cephalopod))
Orthoceras is a genus of extinct nautiloid cephalopod restricted to Middle Ordovician-aged marine limestones of the Baltic States and Sweden. This genus...
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Belosepiellidae is an extinct family of cephalopods, including just two species. "World Register of Marine Species". 1454583. Retrieved July 3, 2024. v...
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Otto Schindewolf (section Evolution)
the evolution of corals and cephalopods. Schindewolf was on the faculty at the University of Marburg from 1919 until 1927. Then he became director of the...
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Orthocerida (category Mesozoic cephalopods)
Orthocerida, also known as the Michelinocerida, is an order of extinct orthoceratoid cephalopods that lived from the Early Ordovician (490 million years ago)...
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Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...
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Nautiloid (category Paleozoic cephalopods)
Nautiloids are a group of marine cephalopods (Mollusca) which originated in the Late Cambrian and are represented today by the living Nautilus and Allonautilus...
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Nautilida (category Paleozoic cephalopods)
The Nautilida constitute a large and diverse order of generally coiled nautiloid cephalopods that began in the mid Paleozoic and continues to the present...
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Permoteuthis (category Prehistoric cephalopod genera)
genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods. Paleontology portal Belemnite List of belemnites Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil...
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Octopus (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
coleoid cephalopods but unlike more basal cephalopods or other molluscs, are capable of greater RNA editing, changing the nucleic acid sequence of the primary...
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Ammonoidea (category Cephalopods described in 1884)
Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses...
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Ceratitida is an order that contains almost all ammonoid cephalopod genera from the Triassic as well as ancestral forms from the Upper Permian, the exception...
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internal bodypart found in many cephalopods of the superorder Decapodiformes (particularly squids) and in a single extant member of the Octopodiformes, the vampire...
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Ellesmerocerida (category Cephalopod orders)
The Ellesmerocerida is an order of primitive cephalopods belonging to the subclass Nautiloidea with a widespread distribution that lived during the Late...
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Plectronocerida (category Prehistoric cephalopod orders)
shelled cephalopods, plectronocerids had a tube called a siphuncle, which let them fill the chambers of their phragmocone with gas instead of water, thus...
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diversification of brachiopods through geologic time Evolution of cephalopods – Origin and diversification of cephalopods through geologic time Evolution of fish –...
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The evolution of cetaceans is thought to have begun in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50 million years ago (mya) and to...
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Teuthology (category Cephalopod stubs)
is the study of cephalopods. Cephalopods are members of the class Cephalopoda in the Phylum Mollusca. Some common examples of cephalopods are octopus,...
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Bactritida (category Paleozoic cephalopods of Europe)
Bactritida are a small order of more or less straight-shelled (orthoconic) cephalopods that first appeared during the Emsian stage of the Devonian period (407...
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Belemnoidea (category Mesozoic cephalopods)
Cretaceous. Other fossil cephalopods include baculites, nautiloids and goniatites. Belemnoids possessed a central rostrom/guard made of aragonite and with negative...
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Orthocone (category Cephalopod zootomy)
curved. An orthoconic form evolved several times among cephalopods, and, among nautiloid cephalopods, is prevalent among the ellesmerocerids, endocerids...
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