Sibyllonautilus

Sibyllonautilus
Temporal range: mid -late Triassic
Scientific classification
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Nautilida
Superfamily: Tainocerataceae
Family: Tainoceratidae
Genus: Sibyllonautilus
Diener, 1915

The genus Sibyllonautilus, extant during the Middle and Late Triassic, is one of the last of the Tainoceratidae, a family of nautilids whose range begins much earlier in the Early Carboniferous (Mississippian).

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