It’s a shame the fossil record for Cephalopod soft anatomy is so bad. Would be interesting to know what the many Ammonoid and Nautiloid species we know of actually looked like, not to mention the nearly complete question mark with Coleoids.
StevoRsays
@ 1.kingoftown : There was the recent fossil named for Biden :
The Order names in the graphic end in ‘idae” which are typically Family names. According to animaldiversity.org the Order for octopuses is Octopoda not Octopodae. Has there been a change in naming rules?
woodsongsays
Nice chart! It’s always cool to see a well-laid out, informative graphic.
It’s a shame the fossil record for Cephalopod soft anatomy is so bad. Would be interesting to know what the many Ammonoid and Nautiloid species we know of actually looked like, not to mention the nearly complete question mark with Coleoids.
@ 1.kingoftown : There was the recent fossil named for Biden :
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/octopus-ancestors-lived-era-dinosaurs-study-shows-83319542
So that’s what’s it called, a pinhole eye? Never thought of that name for a part of my anatomy.
Like a pinhole camera — a camera without a lens.
The Order names in the graphic end in ‘idae” which are typically Family names. According to animaldiversity.org the Order for octopuses is Octopoda not Octopodae. Has there been a change in naming rules?
Nice chart! It’s always cool to see a well-laid out, informative graphic.
What? No Krakenidae?