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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130300| Title: | An annotated checklist of the Oligo-Miocene cephalopods of the Maltese Islands |
| Authors: | Cilia, David P. Fuchs, Dirk Goolaerts, Stijn |
| Keywords: | Cephalopoda, Fossil Nautiloidea, Fossil Mollusks, Fossil -- Mediterranean Region Taphonomy Paleontology -- Mediterranean Region Natural history -- Malta Mollusks -- Evolution |
| Issue Date: | 2024 |
| Publisher: | National Museum of Natural History and Heritage Malta |
| Citation: | Cilia, D. P., Fuchs, D., & Goolaerts, S. (2024). An annotated checklist of the Oligo-Miocene cephalopods of the Maltese Islands. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural History, 1(2), 103-128. |
| Abstract: | A systematic checklist of cephalopod fossils (Phylum Mollusca: Class Cephalopoda) recorded from the Oligo-Miocene sedimentary sequence of the Maltese archipelago is given. It consists of species of the nautilid genera Aturia and Eutrephoceras, next to calcified parts of the nautilid animal’s upper jaw placed under the parataxon Rhyncolites, and of sepiid and spirulid coleoid genera Sepia (Sepiida) and Spirulirostra (Spirulirostrida). Cephalopod fossils from the Maltese archipelago, in particular abundant limonitic or phosphoritic specimens of Aturia and Sepia, have been recorded in scientific literature since the middle part of the 19th Century. The identification of several species of Sepia is hampered by lost type material and taphonomic distortion or loss of diagnostic traits. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130300 |
| Appears in Collections: | BulNMNH Malta, 2024, Vol. 1 Issue 2 |
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