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Nautilus

The Biology and Paleobiology of a Living Fossil, Reprint with additions

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Editors:
  1. W. Bruce Saunders

    1. Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, USA

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  2. Neil H. Landman

    1. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

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  • This reprint of a classic book features a new introductory section summarizing all work on Nautilus since 1987
  • Includes impressive color plates, including an impressive image showing the first hatched Nautilus in captivity
  • Will be relevant to the fields of marine biology, evolutionary biology and paleontology
  • Contains annotated Bibliography and References Published since the first edition

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 6)

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-LXXVII
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  2. Nautilus Studies—The First Twenty-Two Centuries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. Nautilus Studies—The First Twenty-Two Centuries

    1. Nautilus Studies—The First Twenty-Two Centuries

      • Richard Arnold Davis
      Pages 3-21

  4. The Ancestry of the Genus Nautilus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Ancestry of the Genus Nautilus

      • Curt Teichert, Tatsuro Matsumoto
      Pages 25-32

  5. Nautilus and Its Distribution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. The Species of Nautilus

      • W. Bruce Saunders
      Pages 35-52

    3. Geographic Distribution of Nautilus Shells

      • Michael R. House
      Pages 53-64

    4. Genetic Variation and Phylogeny in Nautilus

      • David S. Woodruff, M. Patricia Carpenter, W. Bruce Saunders, Peter D. Ward
      Pages 65-83

    5. Morphological Variation in Nautilus from Papua New Guinea

      • Andrew R. H. Swan, W. Bruce Saunders
      Pages 85-103

    6. Biometrie Analysis of Nautilus pompilius from the Philippines and the Fiji Islands

      • Kazushige Tanabe, Junzo Tsukahara
      Pages 105-113

    7. Biomineralization and Systematic Implications

      • Rex E. Crick, Keith O. Mann
      Pages 115-134

  6. Ecology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Ecology, Distribution, and Population Characteristics of Nautilus

      • W. Bruce Saunders, Peter D. Ward
      Pages 137-162

    3. Incidence and Kinds of Epizoans on the Shells of Live Nautilus

      • Neil H. Landman, W. Bruce Saunders, Judith E. Winston, Peter J. Harries
      Pages 163-177

    4. On the Habitat of Nautilus pompilius in Tañon Strait (Philippines) and the Fiji Islands

      • Shozo Hayasaka, Kimihiko Ōki, Kazushige Tanabe, Toshio Saisho, Akihiko Shinomiya
      Pages 179-200

    5. Predation on Nautilus

      • W. Bruce Saunders, Claude Spinosa, Larry E. Davis
      Pages 201-212

  7. Physiology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. The Central Nervous System

      • J. Z. Young
      Pages 215-221

    3. The Sense Organs of Nautilus

      • Vernon C. Barber
      Pages 223-230
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About this book

1. 1 Nautilus and Allonautilus: Two Decades of Progress W. Bruce Saunders Department of Geology Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr PA 19010 wsaunder@brynmawr. edu Neil H. Landman Division of Paleontology American Museum of Natural History New York, New York 10024 landman@amnh. org When Nautilus: Biology and Paleobiology of a Living Fossil was published in 1987, it marked a milestone in cross-disciplinary collaboration. More than half of the contributing authors (36/65) were paleontologists, many of whom were collaborating with neontological counterparts. Their interest in studying this reclusive, poorly known animal was being driven by a search for clues to the mode of life and natural history of the once dominant shelled cephalopods, through study of the sole surviving genus. At the same time, Nautilus offered an opportunity for neontologists to look at a fundamentally different, phylogenetically basal member of the extant Cephalopoda. It was a w- win situation, combining paleontological deep-time perspectives, old fashioned expeditionary zeal, traditional biological approaches and new techniques. The results were cross-fertilized investigations in such disparate fields as ecology, functional morphology, taphonomy, genetics, phylogeny, locomotive dynamics, etc. As one reviewer of the xxxvi Introduction xxxvii book noted, Nautilus had gone from being one of the least known to one of the best understood of living cephalopods.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, USA

    W. Bruce Saunders

  • American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

    Neil H. Landman

About the editors

W. Bruce Saunders is Professor, Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College. He has studied Nautilus for over 30 years, including field work in the Indo-Pacific, especially Palau and Papua New Guinea. He has worked on the ecology, habitat, and life history of Nautilus, and discovered the first living populations of Allonautilus scrobiculatus.

Neil H. Landman is Curator, Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates), American Museum of Natural History. He is an expert on shelled cephalopods including Nautilus and ammonites and the co-editor of the books Cephalopods Present and Past—New Insights and Fresh Perspectives (2007), and Ammonite Paleobiology (1996), both published by Springer.

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