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    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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    is the long, cone-shaped shell belonging to several species of ancient nautiloid cephalopod—the prehistoric ancestors of today's marine cephalopod mollusks...
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    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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    chambers enclosed between two adjacent septa in the phragmocone of a nautiloid or ammonoid cephalopod molluscus. These can be seen in cross-sections...
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    coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) than they are to shelled nautiloids (such as the living Nautilus). The earliest ammonoids appeared during...
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    Cambrian-Ordovician extinction event, the niches of large carnivores were taken over by nautiloid cephalopods such as Cameroceras and later eurypterids such as Jaekelopterus...
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    Multiceratoidea is a major subclass or superorder of Paleozoic nautiloid cephalopods. Members of this group can be characterized by nautilosiphonate connecting...
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    Endocerida is an extinct nautiloid order, a group of cephalopods from the Lower Paleozoic with cone-like deposits in their siphuncle. Endocerida was a...
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    Lituites (category Nautiloids)
    Lituites is an extinct nautiloid genus from the Middle Ordovician and type for the Lituitidae (a tarphycerid family) that in some more recent taxonomies...
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    the internal chambers (camerae) of the shell of a cephalopod, namely nautiloids or ammonoids. As the creature grows, its body moves forward in the shell...
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    became dominant during the Ordovician period, represented by primitive nautiloids. The class now contains two, only distantly related, extant subclasses:...
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    be the upper surface. All cephalopods with external shells except the nautiloids became extinct by the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago...
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    Allonautilus (category Nautiloid genera)
    Ward, P.D. & W.B. Saunders 1997. Allonautilus: a new genus of living nautiloid cephalopod and its bearing on phylogeny of the Nautilida. Journal of Paleontology...
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  • With only a handful of species surviving today, the Nautiloids flourished during the early Paleozoic era, from the Late Cambrian, where they constituted...
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    the body whorl. It is the outermost or last chamber in the shell of a nautiloid or ammonoid. The body of the animal occupies the living chamber, apart...
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    trilobites and the nautiloid cephalopod including the orthocerid order of extinct Silurian-Devonian orthoceratoid cephalopods. Nautiloid cephalopods are...
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  • Cameroceras (category Prehistoric nautiloid genera)
    scientific papers previously treated Cameroceras as the absolute largest nautiloid-grade cephalopod, with a shell length reaching 5.7 metres (19 ft) or even...
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    the shell of a cephalopod. It is divided by septa into camerae. In most nautiloids and ammonoids, the phragmocone is a long, straight, curved, or coiled...
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  • This list of nautiloids is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the subclass Nautiloidea, excluding purely vernacular...
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  • Riocerida (category Prehistoric nautiloids)
    Riocerida, originally named as Rioceratida, is an extinct order of Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods. They were the earliest-diverging members of the major group...
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    Science. Retrieved June 9, 2021. John, James St (2007-07-31). Fossil nautiloid shell with original iridescent nacre in fossiliferous asphaltic limestone...
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    descending from bactritoid nautiloids. Ammonoids during this time period were simple and differed little from their nautiloid counterparts. These ammonoids...
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    Spiriferida, etc.) recover and become very common again, but trilobites and nautiloids decline. Glaciation in East Gondwana continues from Late Devonian. Tuhua...
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    Coleoidea, diverged from the nautiloids long ago and the nautilus has remained relatively unchanged since. Nautiloids were much more extensive and varied...
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    also numerous, including the genera Murchisonia, Euomphalus, Naticopsis. Nautiloid cephalopods are represented by tightly coiled nautilids, with straight-shelled...
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  • Shell-Shock: Three University Of Arkansas Students Find World's Longest Nautiloid Fossil - an article about the Arkansas Rayonnoceras found in 2003....
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    as an adult. This same type of cross section is found in much earlier nautiloids such as Bassleroceras and Clitendoceras from the Ordovician period, which...
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    along the ventral edge of the shell. In some fossil straight shelled nautiloids, cylindrical calcareous growths ("siphuncular deposits") around the siphuncle...
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    geodized pentamerid brachiopods from strata in Indiana Sphooceras was a Nautiloid cephalopod found in Silurian strata of the Czech Republic Jamoytius was...
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  • Plectronoceratoidea (category Nautiloids)
    Plectronoceratoidea is a superorder or subclass containing primitive nautiloids from the Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician. This group is best considered...
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