Argonautidae
| Argonautidae Temporal range: Oligocene – Recent | |
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| Eggcase of Argonauta nodosa, showing the derived double keel of the genus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Superfamily: | Argonautoida |
| Family: | Argonautidae Tryon, 1879 |
| Genera | |
Argonautidae is a family of cephalopods encompassing the modern paper nautiluses of the genus Argonauta along with several extinct genera of shelled octopods.
All eggcases possessing nodes, ribs, and a double keel, with the exception of those of Kapal batavus, have been assigned to Argonauta. Eggcases lacking these morphological features have been placed in the other Argonautidae genera.[1]
Fossil Argonautidae eggcases have been described from Japan, New Zealand, Sumatra, Europe, and California.[1]
References
- 1 2 Saul, L. & C. Stadum (2005). "Fossil Argonauts (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopodida) From Late Miocene Siltstones Of The Los Angeles Basin, California". Journal of Paleontology 79 (3): 520–531. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079<0520:FAMCOF>2.0.CO;2.
Further reading
- (German) Bandel, K. & W.-C. Dullo (1984). Zur Schalenstruktur fossiler und rezenter Argonauta-Gehäuse (Octopoda, Cephalopoda). Natur und Mensch: Jahresmitteilungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft Nürnberg 1984: 33–38.
- Kaseno Y (1955). "Neogene Argonautinae from Kahoku-gun, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan". Kanazawa University, Science Reports 3: 339–344.
- Kobayashi T (1954). "Izumonauta, a new genus of the Argonautinae, with a note on their rare but gregarious fossil occurrence". Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography 25 (1–2): 21–34.
- Kobayashi T (1956). "A palaeo-meteorological interpretation to the occurrence of the Argonautinae in Province Kaga, central Japan". Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography 27 (2–4): 93–104.
- Lewy Z (1996). "Octopods: nude ammonoids that survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary mass extinction". Geology 24 (7): 627–630. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0627:ONATST>2.3.CO;2.
- Tomida S., Shiba M., Nobuhara T. (2006). "First post-Miocene Argonauta from Japan, and its palaeontological significance". Cainozoic Research 4 (1–2): 19–25.
- (Japanese) Yanagisawa Y (1990). "Age of fossil Argonautidae (Cephalopoda) from Hokuriku Province (central Honshu, Japan) based on diatom biostratigraphy" (PDF). Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Japan 41 (3): 115–127.
- Argonautidae at the Tree of Life Web Project
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