nautiloid


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nautiloid

any mollusc of the subclass Nautiloidea, a group of cephalopods related to the fossil ammonites, which produce a large spiral chambered shell, in the last chamber of which the animal lives.
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Knowing that the chambered shells represent cephalopods also helps us to interpret the ancient environments inhabited by nautiloids.
Nautilus: more than just a pretty shell
Twenty-five million years ago, nautiloids occurred in seas around the world, but now they are restricted to a region from the Philippines south through Indonesia to Australia and eastward to the Fiji Islands.
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Stephenson (1941) described only one nautiloid species from the Navarro Group.
Nautiloids from the Cretaceous (Campanian) Ozan Formation, Taylor Group, Fannin County, Texas
The color pattern on a Cretaceous Nautiloid from South Dacota.
Colour patterns on Silurian orthocerid and pseudorthocerid conchs from Gotland--palaeoecological implications
Reconstructing the life history of modern and fossil nautiloids based on the nitrogen isotopic composition of shell organic matter and amino acids.
Reconstructing carbon sources in a dynamic estuarine ecosystem using oyster amino acid [delta][sup.13]C values from shell and tissue
All of the hundreds of species of nautiloids, except four species of Nautilus, disappeared as living things ages before man came into existence upon the earth" (193).
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Among the fossils are a variety of creatures from sponges, worms and nautiloids to solitary hydroids, also known as the flowers of the sea.
Stonehenge rock tracked to a tiny crag in Preselis; FIRST TIME GEOLOGISTS HAVE IDENTIFIED PRECISE OUTCROP
Fossils of nautiloids (an ancestor of the giant squid) dug up during the building of the new centre are set into the floor of the building; a reconstructed Stone Age roundhouse sits on the site of a crannog (a prehistoric dwelling built on an artificial island in a lake); and the reserve's spectacular new glass-sided bird observatory sits above lime kilns that provided many of the bricks that built Belfast.
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Common fossils of the "Kimmeridge" at the Langenberg are bivalves, gastropods, brachiopods and ichnofossils; in higher parts of the section, even nautiloids occur.
Primeros restos cefalicos de Steneosaurus (Crocodylomorpha: Teleosauridae) del Jurasico Superior de Oker (Baja Sajonia, Alemania)
Dick's Ganymedian slime-mold Lord Running Clam; Octavia Butler's gigantic tentacled Oankali slugs; Hal Clement's Mesklinite centipedes; the ichthyoids, arachnoids, nautiloids, and echinoderms of Star Maker; the sublime jellyfish of The Abyss.
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The sandstone contains nautiloids and abundant other mollusks.
Definitive locations of Paleocene and Eocene marine fossil localities, Colorado River, Bastrop County, Texas

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