Conch Ornamentation in Nonammonoid Cephalopods: Form and Function
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CEPHALOPODS 688 Cephalopods
click for previous page CEPHALOPODS 688 Cephalopods Introduction and GeneralINTRODUCTION Remarks AND GENERAL REMARKS by M.C. Dunning, M.D. Norman, and A.L. Reid iving cephalopods include nautiluses, bobtail and bottle squids, pygmy cuttlefishes, cuttlefishes, Lsquids, and octopuses. While they may not be as diverse a group as other molluscs or as the bony fishes in terms of number of species (about 600 cephalopod species described worldwide), they are very abundant and some reach large sizes. Hence they are of considerable ecological and commercial fisheries importance globally and in the Western Central Pacific. Remarks on MajorREMARKS Groups of CommercialON MAJOR Importance GROUPS OF COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE Nautiluses (Family Nautilidae) Nautiluses are the only living cephalopods with an external shell throughout their life cycle. This shell is divided into chambers by a large number of septae and provides buoyancy to the animal. The animal is housed in the newest chamber. A muscular hood on the dorsal side helps close the aperture when the animal is withdrawn into the shell. Nautiluses have primitive eyes filled with seawater and without lenses. They have arms that are whip-like tentacles arranged in a double crown surrounding the mouth. Although they have no suckers on these arms, mucus associated with them is adherent. Nautiluses are restricted to deeper continental shelf and slope waters of the Indo-West Pacific and are caught by artisanal fishers using baited traps set on the bottom. The flesh is used for food and the shell for the souvenir trade. Specimens are also caught for live export for use in home aquaria and for research purposes. -
Early Paleozoic Life & Extinctions (Part 1)
NJU Course Extinctions: Past, Present & Future Prof. Norman MacLeod School of Earth Sciences & Engineering, Nanjing University Extinctions: Past, Present & Future Extinctions: Past, Present & Future Course Syllabus (Revised) Section Week Title Introduction 1 Course Introduction, Intro. To Extinction Introduction 2 History of Extinction Studies Introduction 3 Evolution, Fossils, Time & Extinction Precambrian Extinctions 4 Origin of Life & Precambrian Extionctions Paleozoic Extinctions 5 Early Paleozoic World & Extinctions Paleozoic Extinctions 6 Middle Paleozoic World & Extinctions Paleozoic Extinctions 7 Late Paleozoic World & Extinctions Assessment 8 Mid-Term Examination Mesozoic Extinctions 9 Triassic-Jurassic World & Extinctions Mesozoic Extinctions 10 Labor Day Holiday Cenozoic Extinctions 11 Cretaceous World & Extinctions Cenozoic Extinctions 12 Paleogene World & Extinctions Cenozoic Extinctions 13 Neogene World & Extinctions Modern Extinctions 14 Quaternary World & Extinctions Modern Extinctions 15 Modern World: Floras, Faunas & Environment Modern Extinctions 16 Modern World: Habitats & Organisms Assessment 17 Final Examination Early Paleozoic World, Life & Extinctions Norman MacLeod School of Earth Sciences & Engineering, Nanjing University Early Paleozoic World, Life & Extinctions Objectives Understand the structure of the early Paleozoic world in terms of timescales, geography, environ- ments, and organisms. Understand the structure of early Paleozoic extinction events. Understand the major Paleozoic extinction drivers. Understand -
Nautiloid Shell Morphology
MEMOIR 13 Nautiloid Shell Morphology By ROUSSEAU H. FLOWER STATEBUREAUOFMINESANDMINERALRESOURCES NEWMEXICOINSTITUTEOFMININGANDTECHNOLOGY CAMPUSSTATION SOCORRO, NEWMEXICO MEMOIR 13 Nautiloid Shell Morphology By ROUSSEAU H. FLOIVER 1964 STATEBUREAUOFMINESANDMINERALRESOURCES NEWMEXICOINSTITUTEOFMININGANDTECHNOLOGY CAMPUSSTATION SOCORRO, NEWMEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin J. Thompson, Director THE REGENTS MEMBERS EXOFFICIO THEHONORABLEJACKM.CAMPBELL ................................ Governor of New Mexico LEONARDDELAY() ................................................... Superintendent of Public Instruction APPOINTEDMEMBERS WILLIAM G. ABBOTT ................................ ................................ ............................... Hobbs EUGENE L. COULSON, M.D ................................................................. Socorro THOMASM.CRAMER ................................ ................................ ................... Carlsbad EVA M. LARRAZOLO (Mrs. Paul F.) ................................................. Albuquerque RICHARDM.ZIMMERLY ................................ ................................ ....... Socorro Published February 1 o, 1964 For Sale by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Campus Station, Socorro, N. Mex.—Price $2.50 Contents Page ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION -
Cambrian Cephalopods
BULLETIN 40 Cambrian Cephalopods BY ROUSSEAU H. FLOWER 1954 STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Eugene Callaghan, Director THE REGENTS MEMBERS Ex OFFICIO The Honorable Edwin L. Mechem ...................... Governor of New Mexico Tom Wiley ......................................... Superintendent of Public Instruction APPOINTED MEMBERS Robert W. Botts ...................................................................... Albuquerque Holm 0. Bursum, Jr. ....................................................................... Socorro Thomas M. Cramer ........................................................................ Carlsbad Frank C. DiLuzio ..................................................................... Los Alamos A. A. Kemnitz ................................................................................... Hobbs Contents Page ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................... 1 FOREWORD ................................................................................................... 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................. 3 PREVIOUS REPORTS OF CAMBRIAN CEPHALOPODS ................ 4 ADEQUATELY KNOWN CAMBRIAN CEPHALOPODS, with a revision of the Plectronoceratidae ..........................................................7 -
Siphuncular Structure in the Extant Spirula and in Other Coleoids (Cephalopoda)
GFF ISSN: 1103-5897 (Print) 2000-0863 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/sgff20 Siphuncular Structure in the Extant Spirula and in Other Coleoids (Cephalopoda) Harry Mutvei To cite this article: Harry Mutvei (2016): Siphuncular Structure in the Extant Spirula and in Other Coleoids (Cephalopoda), GFF, DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2016.1227364 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2016.1227364 Published online: 21 Sep 2016. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=sgff20 Download by: [Dr Harry Mutvei] Date: 21 September 2016, At: 11:07 GFF, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2016.1227364 Siphuncular Structure in the Extant Spirula and in Other Coleoids (Cephalopoda) Harry Mutvei Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY The shell wall in Spirula is composed of prismatic layers, whereas the septa consist of lamello-fibrillar nacre. Received 13 May 2016 The septal neck is holochoanitic and consists of two calcareous layers: the outer lamello-fibrillar nacreous Accepted 23 June 2016 layer that continues from the septum, and the inner pillar layer that covers the inner surface of the septal KEYWORDS neck. The pillar layer probably is a structurally modified simple prisma layer that covers the inner surface of Siphuncular structures; the septal neck in Nautilus. The pillars have a complicated crystalline structure and contain high amount of connecting rings; Spirula; chitinous substance. -
Part I. Revision of Buttsoceras. Part II. Notes on the Michelinoceratida
MEMOIR 10 PART I Revision of Buttsoceras PART II Notes on the Michelinoceratida By ROUSSEAU H. FLOWER 1 9 6 2 STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin J. Thompson, Director THE REGENTS MEMBERS Ex OFFICIO The Honorable Edwin L. Mechem ........................................ Governor of New Mexico Tom Wiley .......................................................... Superintendent of Public Instruction APPOINTED MEMBERS William G. Abbott ............................................................................................... Hobbs Holm 0. Bursum, Jr. ......................................................................................... Socorro Thomas M. Cramer ......................................................................................... Carlsbad Frank C. DiLuzio ...................................................................................... Albuquerque Eva M. Larrazolo (Mrs. Paul F.) ............................................................... Albuquerque Published October I2, 1962 For Sale by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Campus Station, Socorro, N. Mex.—Price $2.00 Contents PART I REVISION OF BUTTSOCERAS Page ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................... INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. -
Contributions in BIOLOGY and GEOLOGY
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM Contributions In BIOLOGY and GEOLOGY Number 51 November 29, 1982 A Compendium of Fossil Marine Families J. John Sepkoski, Jr. MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM Contributions in BIOLOGY and GEOLOGY Number 51 November 29, 1982 A COMPENDIUM OF FOSSIL MARINE FAMILIES J. JOHN SEPKOSKI, JR. Department of the Geophysical Sciences University of Chicago REVIEWERS FOR THIS PUBLICATION: Robert Gernant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee David M. Raup, Field Museum of Natural History Frederick R. Schram, San Diego Natural History Museum Peter M. Sheehan, Milwaukee Public Museum ISBN 0-893260-081-9 Milwaukee Public Museum Press Published by the Order of the Board of Trustees CONTENTS Abstract ---- ---------- -- - ----------------------- 2 Introduction -- --- -- ------ - - - ------- - ----------- - - - 2 Compendium ----------------------------- -- ------ 6 Protozoa ----- - ------- - - - -- -- - -------- - ------ - 6 Porifera------------- --- ---------------------- 9 Archaeocyatha -- - ------ - ------ - - -- ---------- - - - - 14 Coelenterata -- - -- --- -- - - -- - - - - -- - -- - -- - - -- -- - -- 17 Platyhelminthes - - -- - - - -- - - -- - -- - -- - -- -- --- - - - - - - 24 Rhynchocoela - ---- - - - - ---- --- ---- - - ----------- - 24 Priapulida ------ ---- - - - - -- - - -- - ------ - -- ------ 24 Nematoda - -- - --- --- -- - -- --- - -- --- ---- -- - - -- -- 24 Mollusca ------------- --- --------------- ------ 24 Sipunculida ---------- --- ------------ ---- -- --- - 46 Echiurida ------ - --- - - - - - --- --- - -- --- - -- - - --- -
Rendspi 1-Studies
Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana 3 (I) The Silurian of Sardinia volume in honour of Enrico Serpagli Edited by Carlo Corradini Annalisa Ferretti Petr Storch Società Paleontologica Italiana 2009 I Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 3 (1), 2009: 109-118 Silurian nautiloid cephalopods from Sardinia: the state of the art MAURIZIO GNOLI, PAOLO SERVENTI Maurizio Gnoli - Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, largo S. Eufemia 19, I- 41100 Modena (Italy); [email protected] Paolo Serventi - Dipartimento del Museo di Paleobiologia e dell’Orto Botanico, via Università 4, I-41100 Modena (Italy); [email protected] ABSTRACT - The complete faunal list of nautiloid cephalopods from the Silurian of Sardinia has been compiled herein. A history leading to the present state of knowledge on this fossil group, achieved after forty years of extensive study, is reviewed. A total of 61 species assigned to 38 genera are known from the Wenlock-Pridoli of southern Sardinia. The fauna strongly supports links with coeval associations of Bohemia and, to a lesser extent, with the Carnic Alps. KEY WORDS - Silurian, Sardinia, Cephalopods, Palaeogeography. INTRODUCTION This paper represents the nautiloid cephalopod sum up of more than forty years of scientific activity within the informal International Group on the Palaeozoic Palaeontology headed by Prof. Enrico Serpagli, who devoted most of his research to the Italian Palaeozoic outcrops mainly in two areas, the Carnic Alps and southern Sardinia. During these years, many field trips have been carried out in Sardinia allowing the collection of an enormous amount of samples studied in detail in their palaeontological (either taxonomic or biostratigraphical) content by Italian, German, English, Irish, Spanish, Swedish and Czech members of the research team. -
Colour Patterns in Early Devonian Cephalopods from the Barrandian Area: Taphonomy and Taxonomy
Colour patterns in Early Devonian cephalopods from the Barrandian Area: Taphonomy and taxonomy VOJTĚCH TUREK Turek, V. 2009. Colour patterns in Early Devonian cephalopods from the Barrandian Area: Taphonomy and taxonomy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 (3): 491–502. DOI: 10.4202/app.2007.0064. Five cephalopod specimens from the Lower Devonian of Bohemia (Czech Republic) preserve colour patterns. They in− clude two taxonomically undeterminable orthoceratoids and three oncocerid nautiloids assigned to the genus Ptenoceras. The two fragments of orthocone cephalopods from the lowest Devonian strata (Lochkovian, Monograptus uniformis Zone) display colour patterns unusual in orthoceratoids. They have irregular undulating and zigzag strips that are pre− served on counterparts of adapertural regions of specimens flattened in shale, despite their original aragonitic shell having been completely dissolved. These are probably the result of the proteinous pigment inside the shell wall, being substituted during diagenesis by secondary minerals leaving only an altered trace of the original shell. Orthoceratoids from sediments unsuitable for preservation of this feature discussed here thus demonstrate an exceptional case of preservation of colour patterns, not only within Devonian cephalopods but also within other Devonian molluscs. Three specimens of Ptenoceras that preserve colour patterns come from younger Lower Devonian strata. Oblique spiral adaperturally bifurcating bands are preserved in P. alatum from the Pragian and zigzags in P. nudum from the Dalejan. Juvenile specimen of Ptenoceras? sp. from the Pragian exhibits highly undulating transversal bands—a pattern resembling colour markings in some Silu− rian oncocerids. Dark grey wavy lines observed on the superficially abraded adapical part of a phragmocone of nautiloid Pseudorutoceras bolli and interpreted formerly to be colour markings are here reinterpreted as secondary pigmented growth lines. -
United States National Museum Bulletin 262
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION MUSEUM O F NATURAL HISTORY For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., 20402 - Price 70 cents UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 262 Catalog of the Type Specimens of Invertebrate Fossils LOUIS R. PURNELL Part I: Paleozoic Cephalopoda SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. 1968 Publications of the United States National Museum The scientific publications of the United States National Museum in- clude two series, Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin. In these series are published original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of the Museum and setting forth newly ac- quired facts in the field of anthropology, biology, geology, history, and technology. Copies of each publication are distributed to libraries and scientific organizations and to specialists and others interested in the various subjects. The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separate form, of shorter papers. These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume. In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear longer, separate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in several parts) and volumes in which are collected works on related sub- jects. Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on the the needs of the presentation. Since 1902, papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum have been published in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. -
041-2011-Abstracts-BOE-III-Crete.Pdf
Boreskov Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia Borissiak Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia III International Conference “Biosphere Origin and Evolution” RETHYMNO, CRETE, GREECE OCTOBER 16-20, 2011 ABSTRACTS Novosibirsk, 2011 © Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, 2011 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Alexei Rozanov, Borissiak Paleontological Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia Co‐Chairman Georgii Zavarzin, Institute of Microbiology RAS, Moscow, Russia Co‐Chairman Vadim Agol Moscow State University, Russia Yury Chernov Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia Institute of Protein Research RAS, Pushchino, Moscow region, Alexander Chetverin Russia David Deamer Biomolecular Engineering, School of Engineering, Santa Cruz, USA V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Nikolay Dobretsov Novosibirsk, Russia Mikhail Fedonkin Geological Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia Siegfried Franck Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany V.I. Vernadskii Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry Eric Galimov RAS, Moscow, Russia Mikhail Grachev Limnological Institute SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia Richard Hoover Nasa Marshall Space Flight Ctr., Huntsville, USA North‐Western Scientific Center RAS, St. Petersburg State Sergey Inge‐Vechtomov University, Russia Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum‐Gas Geology and Geophysics Alexander Kanygin SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia Astrospace Centre of Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Moscow, Nikolay Kardashev Russia Józef Kaźmierczak Institute of Paleobiology PAN, Warsaw, Poland Nikolay Kolchanov Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum‐Gas Geology and Geophysics Alexei Kontorovich SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library Eugene V. -
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An early Silurian (Aeronian) cephalopod fauna from Kopet-Dagh, north-eastern Iran: including the earliest records of non-orthocerid cephalopods from the Silurian of Northern Gondwana DAVID H. EVANS, MANSOUREH GHOBADI POUR, LEONID E. POPOV & HADI JAHANGIR The cephalopod fauna from the Aeronian Qarebil Limestone of north-eastern Iran comprises the first comprehensive re- cord of early Silurian cephalopods from peri-Gondwana. Although consisting of relatively few taxa, the assemblage in- cludes members of the orders Oncocerida, Discosorida, Barrandeocerida and Orthocerida. Coeval records of several of these taxa are from low palaeolatitude locations that include Laurentia, Siberia, Baltica and Avalonia, and are otherwise unknown from peri-Gondwana until later in the Silurian. The cephalopod assemblage occurs in cephalopod limestones that currently represent the oldest record of such limestones in the Silurian of the peri-Gondwana margin. The appear- ance of these cephalopods, together with the development of cephalopod limestones may be attributed to the relatively low latitudinal position of central Iran and Kopet-Dagh compared with that of the west Mediterranean sector during the Aeronian. This, combined with the continued post-glacial warming after the Hirnantian glaciation, facilitated the initia- tion of carbonate deposition and conditions suitable for the development of the cephalopod limestones whilst permitting the migration of cephalopod taxa, many of which were previously restricted to lower latitudes. • Key words: Llandovery, Aeronian, Cephalopoda, palaebiogeography, peri-Gondwana. EVANS, D.H., GHOBADI POUR, M., POPOV,L.E.&JAHANGIR, H. 2015. An Early Silurian (Aeronian) cephalopod fauna from Kopet-Dagh, north-eastern Iran: including the earliest records of non-orthocerid cephalopods from the Silurian of Northern Gondwana.