Carinonautilus ariyalurensis Spengler 1910 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae

Full reference: E. Spengler. 1910. Untersuchungen über die südindische Kreideformation. Die Nautiliden und Belemniten des Trichinopolydistrikts. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 23:125-157

Belongs to Carinonautilus according to B. Kummel 1956

See also Spengler 1910

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kalmodu, near Otakoil, which is in a Campanian marine horizon in India

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 93.0

Distribution: found only at Kalmodu, near Otakoil

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