Clydonautilus is a genus of nautiloids and type for the Clydonautilidae that has been found in the Upper Triassic of Europe, India, and Timor. Its type is C. noricus.
Clydonautilus Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
Order: | Nautilida |
Family: | †Clydonautilidae |
Genus: | †Clydonautilus Mojsisovics 1882 |
Clydonautilus is the most derived of the Clydonautilitidae, evidenced in its suture. The shell itself is smooth and involute, with only the outer whorl exposed. The diagnostic suture has a small median saddle in the ventral lobe which in turn has a smaller shallow lobe. Those in other clydonautilitids are less complex.
References
edit- Bernhard Kummel, 1964. Nautiloidea -Natilida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.