Syrionautilus libanoticus Foord and Crick 1890 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Cymatoceratidae

Alternative combination: Nautilus libanoticus

Full reference: A. H. Foord and G. C. Crick. 1890. On some new and imperfectly-defined species of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary Nautili contained in the British Museum (Natural History). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 6:388-409

Belongs to Syrionautilus according to B. Kummel 1956

See also Foord and Crick 1890 and Kobayashi 1954

Sister taxa: none

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sahil Alma (Lewis collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

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