Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods: Development and Evolution Form, Construction, and function Taphonomy, Palaeoecology, Palaeobiogeography, Biostratigraphy, and Basin Analysis

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Cephalopod Development and Evolution....Pages 3-11
Hatching of Nautilus Macromphalus in the Tobaaquarium, Japan....Pages 13-16
Comparative Analysis of Some Morphometric Characters in Two Sepiolids: Sepietta Neglecta (NAEF, 1916) and Sepietta Oweniana (Orbigny, 1840)....Pages 17-21
Embryonic Development of Primitive Ammonoids and the Monophyly of the Ammonoidea....Pages 23-45
A Late Carboniferous Spirulid Coleoid from ahe Southern Mid-Continent (USA)....Pages 47-57
Plasticity of Developmental Timing as the Underlying Cause of High Speciation Rates in Ammonoids....Pages 59-76
Pathologic Gigantism in Middle Carboniferous Cephalopods, Southern Midcontinent, United States....Pages 77-89
Aalenian TMETOCERAS (Ammonoidea) from Iberia....Pages 91-108
Evolution of the Family Sibiritidae and Detailed Biostratigraphy of the Siberian Upper Olenekian (TRIASSIC)....Pages 109-123
The Genus Cadochamoussetia in the Phylogeny of the Jurassic Cardioceratidae (Ammonoidea)....Pages 125-136
A Review of Volkhovian and Kundan (Arenig-Llanvirn) Nautiloids from Sweden....Pages 137-159
The Xiphoteuthididae Bather, 1892 (Aulacocerida, Coleoidea)....Pages 161-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Ultrastructural Studies on the Epidermis of Adult Octopus Vulgaris Cuvier, 1797....Pages 173-188
Comparative Immunohistochemical and Immunocytochemical Investigations on the Location of Haemocyanin Synthesis in Dibranchiate and Tetrabranchiate Cephalopods ( Sepia and Nautilus )....Pages 189-202
Ultrastructural Studies of the Suckers of Newly Hatched Eledone Moschata and Octopus Vulgaris (Mollusca; Cephalopoda)....Pages 203-221
Conch Ultrastructure and Septal Neck Ontogeny of the Belemnite Conobelus (Duvaliidae) from the Valanginian of the Crimea (Black Sea)....Pages 223-232
Aggregation of Aragonite in the Outer Prismatic Layer of Mesozoic Ammonoids....Pages 233-242
Internal Features of the Embryonic Shells of Late Carboniferous Goniatitina....Pages 243-254
Early Ontogeny of the Siphuncle and Shell in the Early Carboniferous Rayonnoceras (Actinocerida) from Arkansas, USA....Pages 255-261
The Use of Landmarks to Describe Ammonite Shap....Pages 263-272
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Recent Advances in Morphometric Approaches to Covariation of Shell Features and the Complexity of Suture Lines in Late Jurassic Ammonites, With Reference to the Major Environments Colonized....Pages 273-293
Morphological Diversity of Ammonoids from the Lower Namurian of Central Asia....Pages 295-313
Whorl Width in the Body Chamber of Ammonites as a Sign of Dimorphism....Pages 315-332
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Rollmarks of Soft Parts and a Possible Crop Content of Late Cretaceous Ammonites from the Slovenian Karst....Pages 335-344
Possible Cephalopod Reproductive Mass Mortality Reflected by Middle Carboniferous Assemblages, Arkansas, Southern United States....Pages 345-364
Silurian Cephalopod Limestone Facies in the Carnic Alps (Rauchkofel Boden Section, Austria)....Pages 365-379
Nautiloid Paleobathymetry from the Silurian ‘Orthoceras Limestone’ Facies of SW Sardinia, Italy....Pages 381-394
Aalenian Tmetoceras (Ammonoidea) from Iberia....Pages 395-417
Belemnite Distribution Patterns....Pages 419-436
The Deshayesites Kazansky, 1914 (Ammonoidea) Representatives in Romania, A Link Between the West-European and Caspian Assemblages of this Genus....Pages 437-462
Ammonite Biostratigraphy and Correlations in the Upper Jurassic-Lowermost Cretaceous La Caja Formation of North-Central Mexico (Sierra De Catorce, San Luis Potosí)....Pages 463-491
Silurian Cephalopod Limestone Biofacies From Eastern Siberia....Pages 493-503
Biostratigraphic Distribution of Lower Carboniferous Ammonoids in Northern Russia....Pages 505-519
Stratigraphic Position of Valanginites, Lissonia , and Acantholissonia in the Lower Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) Ammonite Sequence of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina....Pages 521-529
Back Matter....Pages 531-550