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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Nautiloids with multiple paired muscle scars from Lower--Middle Ordovician of Baltoscandia.
Muscle scars in euomphaline gastropods from the Ordovician of Baltica/Lihaste kinnitusjaljed euomphaliinsetel tigudel Baltika Ordoviitsiumis
Knowing that the chambered shells represent cephalopods also helps us to interpret the ancient environments inhabited by nautiloids. All cephalopods today require salt water to survive.
Nautilus: more than just a pretty shell
Breed, "The Discovery of Orthocone Nautiloids in the Redwall Limestone, Marble Canyon, Arizona," in C.
Flood geology and the Grand Canyon: a critique
The nautiloid cephalopod Cymatoceras hilli (Shattuck, 1903) from the Cretaceous (Albian) Walnut Formation, central Texas.
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).
Agassiz or Darwin: faith and science in Hemingway's high school zoology class
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.
Taking a walk on the wild side; Mike Wood finds his back-to-nature adventure weekend is much like a duck to water
Then he witnesses the rise and fall of intelligent species in many worlds, including exotic hive minds, plant men, "nautiloids," and intelligent stars.
Beyond limits
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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