Nautilus cookanus

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Nautilus cookanus is an extinct species of nautilus. It lived during the Eocene epoch. N. cookanus placed within the genus Nautilus, together with extant species based on their shared shell characters.[1] Fossils of the species from the Late Eocene Hoko River Formation are noted as one of the two oldest occurrences for the genus (with the other, older occurrence being N. praepompilius of the Paleogene).[2] Its name has frequently been misspelled as "cookanum".[3]

Nautilus cookanus
Temporal range: Late Eocene
artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Nautilida
Family: Nautilidae
Genus: Nautilus
Species:
N. cookanus
Binomial name
Nautilus cookanus
Whitfield, 1892
Synonyms
  • Nautilus cookanum Whitfield, 1892 (Missp.)
  • Eutrephoceras cookanum (Whitfield, 1892)

References

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  1. ^ Ward, P.D. & W.B. Saunders 1997. Allonautilus: a new genus of living nautiloid cephalopod and its bearing on phylogeny of the Nautilida. Journal of Paleontology 71(6): 1054–1064.
  2. ^ Ryoji, W.; et al. (2008). "First discovery of fossil Nautilus pompilius (Nautilidae, Cephalopoda) from Pangasinan, northwestern Philippines". Paleontological Research. 12 (1): 89–95. doi:10.2517/1342-8144(2008)12[89:FDOFNP]2.0.CO;2.
  3. ^ Goedert, James L.; Kiel, Steffen; Tsai, Cheng-Hsiu (2022). "Miocene Nautilus (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) from Taiwan, and a review of the Indo-Pacific fossil record of Nautilus". Island Arc. 31. doi:10.1111/iar.12442. S2CID 247532223.