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Nautiloidea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	345336	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=345336

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Nautiloidea

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Nautiloidea	Agassiz 1847
order	Nautilida	Agassiz 1847
superfamily	Nautiloidea	(de Blainville 1825)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nautiloidea	superfamily	belongs to Nautilida	stated with evidence	Teichert et al., 1964
Nautiloidea	superfamily	belongs to Nautilida	stated without evidence	Landman et al., 2007
Nautiloidea	superfamily	belongs to Nautilida	stated with evidence	Schnetler and Heilmann-Clausen, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

615

Extant Size (PBDB)

12 (2.0%)

First Recorded Appearance

296 - 290 Ma
Permian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Nautilida)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Nautilida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Nautilida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

K. I. Schnetler and C. Heilmann-Clausen. 2011. The molluscan fauna of the Eocene Lillebælt clay, Denmark. Cainozoic Research 8(1-2):41-99

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aturiidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	394	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	6.50 Ma Miocene
Cenoceratidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	317	242 Ma Middle Triassic	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cymatoceratidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hercoglossidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	331	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Nautilidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	990	296 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant
Paracenoceratidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	122	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Pseudonautilidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	109	199 Ma Early Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1825	Nautilaceae de Blainville
1964	Nautilaceae Teichert et al. p. 448
1968	Nautilacea Beu p. 161
1968	Nautilaceae Sastry and Mathur p. 240
1983	Nautilacea Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 110
1984	Nautilacea Squires p. 54
1986	Nautilaceae Llompart p. 168
2007	Nautilitaceae Landman et al. p. 55
2011	Nautiloidea Schnetler and Heilmann-Clausen p. 76
2016	Nautiloidea Baudouin et al. p. 65

References

Schnetler K. I., Heilmann-Clausen C. (2011) The molluscan fauna of the Eocene Lillebælt clay, Denmark, Cainozoic Research 8 1-2, 41-99

Teichert C., Kummel B., et al (1964) Cephalopoda - general features - Endoceratoidea - Actinoceratoidea - Nautiloidea - Bactritoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology K 3, 1-519

Beu A. G. (1968) A specimen of the nautiloid Aturia from the Kapitean stage (uppermost Miocene) of New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 11, 161-165

Sastry M. V. A., Mathur U. B. (1968) Nautiloid Aturia from Eocene of Western India, Journal of Paleontology 42 1, 240-242

Gliozzi E., Malatesta A. (1983) I molluschi del Paleocene di Baixa Chinhauanine nel bacino del Rio Massintonto (Maputo - Mozambico), Geologica Romana 22, 85-145

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Llompart C. (1986) Restos de nautílidos en la secuencia deposicional de Armàncies (Eoceno, Prepirineo de Gerona), Scientia Gerundensis 12, 165-171

Landman N. H., Johnson R. O., et al (2007) Cephalopods from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary interval on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. with a description of the highest ammonite zones in North America. Part III. Manasquan River Basin, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 303, 1-122

Baudouin C., Delanoy G., et al (2016) Revision of the Early Cretaceous genera Heminautilus Spath, 1927, and Josanautilus Martínez & Grauges, 2006 (Nautilida, Cenoceratidae), Carnets de Géologie 16 5, 61-212

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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