Advancing research on living and fossil cephalopods : development and evolution, form, construction, and function, taphonomy, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, biostratigraphy, and basin analysis

Relying on the latest analytical techniques, this all-embracing new reference offers comprehensive coverage of the development, evolution, and morphology of both fossil and living cephalopods. In 34 in-depth chapters a group of 51 international neontologists and peleontologists offer and opverview of current methods, data, analyses, and interpretations, and posit suggestions for future research. With its unparalleled combination of first-rate contributions on living and fossil cephalopods, this book provides researchers and advanced students in paleontology, invertebrate zoology, evolutionary biology, and allied disciplines with a trove of recent data and authoritative interpretations that will immeasurably benefit their own studies. 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 Proceedings of the IVth International Symposium on Cephalopods: Present and Past, held in Granada, Spain, July 14-18, 1996