Cephalopoda terms Flashcards
Orthoconic
Cone-like. These are the primitive chephalopoda
septa
The things that separtate chambers
I think there also called sutchers
Siphuncle
Used to move gas and fluid (blood stuff) into shell to contoll buoyancy
In Nautiloids the siphuncle is located at the center of the camerae
Subclass Nautiloidea cambrian - recent
Most primitive of cephalopoda with simpe sutures
Hyponome
used by cephalopoda for jet propulsion
sutures
The lines of juncture of the septa and inner layers
Camerae
series of gas-filled chambers
Phragmocone
where the body dosn’t live
Body chamber
The last chamber where the body actually lives
Subclass Ammonoidea Devonian- cretaceous
Have complex suture patterns. There are 3 grades
Also have a ventrally situated siphuncle (on the outside edges of septa)
- “Grade” goniatitida devonian - permian
- “grade” Ceratitida Carboniiferous- triassic
- Grade” Ammonititida Permian - Cretaceous
Septae
Complex folding of camber walls
Saddles
Suture line which curve toward the open end of the shell
Lobes
Suture line curves away from the opend end
lobes are pointy and point away
“grade” Goniatitida Devonian - Permian
Has the simplist sutures out of the subclass Ammonoidea –> Goniatitic suture pattern
Goniatitic suture pattern
All or most all of the lobes and saddles are plain
“Grade” Ceratitida Carboniferous- Triassic
Ceratitic suteres.
Ceratitic suteres.
Have serrated lobes and simple saddles
“grade” Ammonititida
the most complex suture patters –> Ammonitic sutures
Ammonitic sutures
have serrated lobes and saddles
Planispiral vs Heteromorphs
Planispiral is when the ammonoid is in its ussual coilled shape
Heteromorphs are “odd balls” for they are not the simpe coill but look like paper clips, trumpits, and other odd shapes
ornament
Features o the shell surface.
include: costae and plicae
Subclass Coleoidea Devonian- recent
All living cephalopods belong to this subclass (ocopus ect.)
Have a “skeleton” (shell) that is reduced and internal if they have one. It is also streamlined in the direction of swimming (backwards)
this is why it looks like a bulet
Rostrum
Looks like a bullet. No sutchers and is the interna “skeloton” of the Subclass Coleoidea Devonian - recent
Phragmocone
Thing inside the Rostrum
Class Scaphopoda Ordovician - recent
Look like tusks