Argonautidae

Taxobox
fossil_range = Oligocene – Recent
name = Argonautidae

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image_caption = Eggcase of "Argonauta nodosa".
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Octopoda
superfamilia = Argonautoida
familia = Argonautidae
familia_authority = Tryon, 1879
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Argonauta"
†"Izumonauta"
†"Kapal"
†"Mizuhobaris"
†"Obinautilus"

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.cite journal | author = Saul, L. & C. Stadum | year = 2005 | title = Fossil Argonauts (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopodida) From Late Miocene Siltstones Of The Los Angeles Basin, California | journal = Journal of Paleontology | volume = 79 | issue = 3 | pages = 520–531 | url = http://apt.allenpress.com/aptonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0022-3360&volume=079&issue=03&page=0520 | doi = 10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079<0520:FAMCOF>2.0.CO;2]

Fossil Argonautidae eggcases have been described from Japan, New Zealand, Sumatra, Europe, and California.

References

Further reading

*Yanagisawa, Y. 1990. PDFlink| [http://www.gsj.jp/Pub/Bull/vol_41/41-03_02.pdf Age of fossil Argonautidae (Cephalopoda) from Hokuriku Province (central Honshu, Japan) based on diatom biostratigraphy.] |1.90 MiB "Bull. Geol. Surv. Japan" 41(3): 115-127.