Definition of Nautiloid. Meaning of Nautiloid. Synonyms of Nautiloid

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Definition of Nautiloid

Nautiloid
Nautiloid Nau"ti*loid, a. [Nautilus + -oid: cf. F. nautilo["i]de.] (Zo["o]l.) Like or pertaining to the nautilus; shaped like a nautilus shell. -- n. A mollusk, or shell, of the genus Nautilus or family Nautilid[ae].

Meaning of Nautiloid from wikipedia

- Nautiloids are a group of marine cephalopods (Mollusca) which originated in the Late Cambrian and are represented today by the living Nautilus and Allonautilus...
- Orthoceras is a genus of extinct nautiloid cephalopod restricted to Middle Ordovician-aged marine limestones of the Baltic States and Sweden. This genus...
- is the long, cone-shaped s**** belonging to several species of ancient nautiloid cephalopod—the prehistoric ancestors of today's marine cephalopod mollusks...
- coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) than they are to s****ed nautiloids (such as the living Nautilus). The earliest ammonoids appeared during...
- became dominant during the Ordovician period, represented by primitive nautiloids. The class now contains two, only distantly related, extant subclasses:...
- chambers enclosed between two adjacent septa in the phragmocone of a nautiloid or ammonoid cephalopod molluscus. These can be seen in cross-sections...
- 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...
- With only a handful of species surviving today, the Nautiloids flourished during the early Paleozoic era, from the Late Cambrian, where they constituted...
- trilobites and the nautiloid cephalopod including the orthocerid order of extinct Silurian-Devonian orthoceratoid cephalopods. Nautiloid cephalopods are...
- be the upper surface. All cephalopods with external s**** except the nautiloids became extinct by the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago...