Information about Nautilus Clarkanus

Nautilus clarkanus
Fossil range: Carboniferous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Order:Nautilida
Family:Nautilidae
Genus:Nautilus
Species:N. clarkanus
Binomial name
Nautilus clarkanus
Hall, 1858


Nautilus clarkanus is an extinct species of nautilus. It lived during the Lower Carboniferous. Fossil specimens have been uncovered in the Spergen Hill Limestone formation of Indiana. N. clarkanus has been grouped into a single taxon together with extant species based on their shared shell characters.

References

The Carboniferous is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Ma (million years ago), to the beginning of the Permian period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Ma (ICS 2004).
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conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the
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For other uses of the term, see Fossil (disambiguation)


FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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Cephalopoda
Cuvier, 1797

Orders

Subclass Nautiloidea
  • †Plectronocerida
  • †Ellesmerocerida
  • †Actinocerida
  • †Pseudorthocerida
  • †Endocerida
  • †Tarphycerida
  • †Oncocerida

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Nautilina
Agassiz, 1847

Family: Nautilidae
Blainville, 1825

Genera

Allonautilus
Nautilus

Nautilus (from Greek ναυτίλος
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Nautilina
Agassiz, 1847

Family: Nautilidae
Blainville, 1825

Genera

Allonautilus
Nautilus

Nautilus (from Greek ναυτίλος
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Nautilus
Linnaeus, 1758

Species
  • Nautilus belauensis
  • Nautilus clarkanus
  • Nautilus cookanum
  • Nautilus macromphalus
  • Nautilus pompilius

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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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James Hall (September 12, 1811–August 7, 1898) was an American geologist and paleontologist. He was a noted authority on stratigraphy and had an influential role in the development of American paleontology.
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extinction is the cessation of existence of a species or group of taxa, reducing biodiversity. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species (although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point).
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Nautilina
Agassiz, 1847

Family: Nautilidae
Blainville, 1825

Genera

Allonautilus
Nautilus

Nautilus (from Greek ναυτίλος
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The Carboniferous is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Ma (million years ago), to the beginning of the Permian period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Ma (ICS 2004).
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For other uses of the term, see Fossil (disambiguation)


FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system.
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The State of Indiana

Flag of Indiana Seal
Nickname(s): The Hoosier State

Motto(s): The Crossroads of America

Official language(s) English

Capital Indianapolis (785,597)

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A taxon (plural taxa), or taxonomic unit, is a name designating an organism or group of organisms. A taxon is assigned a rank and can be placed at a particular level in a systematic hierarchy reflecting evolutionary
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