Nautilus modestus Anderson 1958 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378

Belongs to Nautilus according to F. M. Anderson 1958

Sister taxa: Nautilus (Discites), Nautilus (Discus), Nautilus altifrons, Nautilus alumnus, Nautilus angustatus, Nautilus averilli, Nautilus balcombensis, Nautilus bambanagensis, Nautilus butonensis, Nautilus calciferus, Nautilus campbelli, Nautilus cancellatus, Nautilus carolinus, Nautilus cookana, Nautilus decurrens, Nautilus dolerus, Nautilus gabbi, Nautilus geelongensis, Nautilus inequalis, Nautilus izumoensis, Nautilus javanus, Nautilus longobardicus, Nautilus macromphalus, Nautilus occidentalis, Nautilus palladii, Nautilus polyplocus, Nautilus pompilius, Nautilus praepompilius, Nautilus propinquus, Nautilus repertus, Nautilus reticulatus, Nautilus scrobiculatus, Nautilus sphaericus, Nautilus stenomphalus, Nautilus subbiangulatus, Nautilus subcarolinus, Nautilus taiwanus, Nautilus texanus, Nautilus tintoretti, Nautilus triangularis, Nautilus tubercularis, Nautilus undulatus, Nautilus winslowi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Steinbergkogel, grauem Marmor, which is in a Sevatian carbonate limestone in the Halstatt Formation of Austria

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nautilus modestus in the database

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