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Nautilidae

Nautilidae

Overview

Nautilidae de Blainville, 1825

Common Name: 

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: The living Nautilus serves as a primary example for this group which has a chambered shell with connecting siphuncle between chambers to control buoyancy. Shells are involute and smooth, sometimes with curvy ornamentation or slight ribbing. Suture lines are stright or slightly curvy.

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Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (swim)

        FEEDING MODE: Predator

        HABITAT: epifaunal

Sources:

Kummel, B., 1964. Nautiloidea-Nautilida, in Moore, R. C., ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K, Mollusca 3, Volume 1. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 362 pp.


Genera of Nautilidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway