Spirulida

{{short description|Order of cephalopods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Late Jurassic|Recent|earliest=Stephanian|refs=*}}

| image = Spirula spirula4.jpg

| image_caption = Spirula spirula

| taxon = Spirulida

| authority = Stolley, 1919

| subdivision_ranks = Suborders

| subdivision =

†Groenlandibelina

†Belopterina

Spirulina

| synonyms =

}}

Spirulida is an order of cephalopods comprising one extant species (Spirula spirula) and several extinct taxa.

Fossil record

  • Oldest representative: Carboniferous, though contested: see Shimanskya
  • Oldest uncontested representative: Late Jurassic{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01125.x|title=Taxonomy, morphology and phylogeny of Late Cretaceous spirulid coleoids (Cephalopoda) from Greenland and Canada|journal=Palaeontology|volume=55|issue=2|pages=285|year=2012|last1=Fuchs|first1=Dirk|last2=Keupp|first2=Helmut|last3=Trask|first3=PAT|last4=Tanabe|first4=Kazushige}}

Classification

Taxa marked with † are extinct.

References

{{Reflist}}

  • [http://tolweb.org/Spirula_spirula/19989 Tree of Life: Spirulida]
  • [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/TaxonTree.aspx?id=157561 The Taxonomicon: Order Spirulida]
  • [http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Protostoma/Mollusca/Cephalopoda/Decapodiformes/Spirulida.htm Mikko's Phylogeny Archive: Spirulida]

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Category:Cephalopod orders

Category:Cenozoic cephalopods