Practical No-4

Morphological Features of Cephalopoda

Phylum : MOLLUSCA

Class : CEPHALOPODA

Subclasses : (1) NAUTILOIDEA

(2) AMMONOIDEA

(3) DIBRANCHIATA

22nd June, 2022

Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Mollusca
Class - Cephalopoda
Subclass - Nautiloidea
Order - Nautilida
Suborder -
Superfamily -
Family - Rutoceratidae
Superfamily -
The modern chambered nautilus belongs to the
Genus - Goldringia
Nautilida group, which characteristically have "closely
Species - G. undulata coiled, widely umbilicate to convolute and involute"
shells. They originated in the Devonian and persist to
Subspecies -
the present day.
Range - Devonian-Recent
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Mollusca
Class - Cephalopoda
Subclass - Nautiloidea
Order - Nautilida
Suborder -
Superfamily -
Eutrephoceras typically possess nearly globular conchs (shells). The
Family - Rutoceratidae whorls are reniform (kidney-shaped) in cross section and broadly
rounded on the sides and lower edge. On the upper edge it is only
Superfamily - slightly curved. The surface of the shell is usually smooth, but can
Genus - Eutrephoceras sometimes be sculptured. The suture patterns are slightly sinuous,
though it can be more or less straight in some species.
Species - E. dekayi The umbilicus is small and barely noticeable, sometimes hidden
altogether. The septa are averagely convex towards the tip.
Subspecies - The siphuncle is small and circular in cross section. It can vary in
position considerably and its placement is important in identifying
Range - Late Jurassic-Miocene different species under the genus, but it is never marginal.
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Mollusca
Class - Cephalopoda
Subclass - Nautiloidea
Order - Tarphycerida
Suborder -
Superfamily -
Trocholites is a tarphycerid genus in the family Trocholitidae from
Family - Trocholitidae the Middle and Late Ordovician with a gradually expanding, weakly
ribbed shell; whorls in contact, dorsum slightly impressed; cross
Superfamily - section depressed, venter and sides rounded; siphuncle close to
Genus - Trocholites but not at the dorsal margin.
The dorsal siphuncle of Trocholites, and the Trocholitidae is
Species - somewhat anomalous and may indicate something about the
orientation of the shell during life; placing the last septum high
Subspecies - rather than midway or low, typical of most. The prevailing location in
most coiled cephalopods is central or ventral, extremely ventral in
Range - Mid-Late Ordovician most ammonoids.
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Mollusca
Class - Cephalopoda
Subclass - Nautiloidea
Order - Actinocerida
Suborder -
Superfamily -
Family - Actinoceratidae The Actinocerida are an order of generally straight, medium to
large cephalopods that lived during the early and middle Paleozoic,
Superfamily - distinguished by a siphuncle composed of expanded segments that
Genus - Actinoceras extend into the adjacent chambers, in which deposits formed within
contain a system of radial canals and a narrow space along the inner
Species - side of the connecting ring known as a paraspatium. (Teichert 1964)
Septal necks are generally short and cyrtochoanitic, some being
Subspecies - recumbent, some hook shaped. Most grew to lengths of about 60 to
90 cm (2.0 to 3.0 ft) but some, like the Huroniidae of the Silurian grew
Range - Mid-Late Ordovician significantly larger.
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Mollusca
Class - Cephalopoda
Subclass - Nautiloidea
Order - Endocerida
Suborder -
Superfamily -
Family - Endoceratidae
Superfamily -
Cameroceras ("chambered horn") is a genus of extinct,
Genus - Cameroceras giant orthoconic cephalopod that lived mainly during the Ordovician period. It
first appears during the middle Ordovician, around 470 million years ago, and
Species - C. trentonense was a fairly common component of the fauna in some places during the period,
inhabiting the shallow seas of Laurentia, Baltica and Siberia. Its diversity and
Subspecies - abundance became severely reduced following the Ordovician–Silurian
extinction events, and the last remnants of the genus went extinct sometime
Range - Ordovician–Silurian during the Wenlock.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Orthocerida

Clinoceras Paraphragmites

Whitfieldoceras
Gorgonoceras
Cyrtocycloceras, Lamellorthoceras

Calocyrtoceras

Gaspocyrtoceras
Kingdom: Animalia Agastrioceras Cancelloceras Gastrioceras
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea Homoceras Isohomoceras
Agastrioceras
Order: Goniatitida

Arkanites Bilinguites Quinnites

Reticuloceras
Phanerozoic genus-level diversity of "Nautiloidea" (graph generated using the Paleobiology Database Navigator).