If anyone wants to comment or discuss the New Papers on Fossil Cephalopods (http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=2499&forum=11&p=2790 8#27908) please do here!

As far as possible I've only included papers that can be downloaded for free in their entirety. I don't see the point of just hinting of an interesting paper and only providing an abstract; that's just annoying!

I've locked the thread itself so that we can just keep that purely to a list of interesting papers. If anyone finds an interesting paper, please just drop me a line and I'll add it.

Thanks,

Phil

:nautiloi:

Great stuff Phil, :notworth:

Phil, WOW I've worn out my copy of WordWeb, so many whopping great words !
"Origin of Ammonoid Locomotion" made the best bedtime reading, I've always viewed the various designs as looking extremely unstable & awkward but how can you compare a piece of rock to the original creature ?
Manouverability & speed through the water would dictate feeding behaviour just as the available prey dictates the form of the predator, chicken & egg ? Is there any video of a nautilus in action ?
With drag a major factor with motion thro' water I wonder what was the plan with ammonites sporting protuberances such as those from your neck of the mud.
Statoliths are another eye opener :cyclops: , I marvel at some of the instruments evolution has equipped us with to get us thro' the day but we have many millions of years over these guys but still they were equipped with equally cunning gadgets - hats off to Mother Nature & I doff my cyber cap to you for supplying this top info ! :thumbsup:
If I had loads of spare cash I treat you to a phat fossil off Ebay ! :wink:

Hi Spartacus, apologies for the tardy reply.....Yeah, some of those articles are classics; I tried reading the Germanonautilus one but it gave me a headache...and that was just the abstract! :) Well, even if some of us mere mortals don't understand these articles completely I thought it might be a useful resource for some readers. Actually, some of them are comprehensible to the non-scientist; Trachyteuthis reads fine, and Neale Monks' heteromorph paper at the end is interesting.


With drag a major factor with motion thro' water I wonder what was the plan with ammonites sporting protuberances such as those from your neck of the mud.

Well, I've had a quick research for you; some Cretaceous ammonites were highly ornamented; as you say this would have increased the drag on the swimming animal. However many of these bumps are defensive trade-offs as they are bases of spines. Some of the Albian Hoplitaceae were very spiny indeed; have a look at the photo of the specimen of Euhoplites armatus in the 'Folkestone' article for example. Unfortunately I only put in a side view but the ammonite is very bulky when seen in cross section. These spine bases run in two lines in parallel rows along the specimen, the living animal would have been a ball of spines; not an image one traditionally associates with ammonites, but an appealing one. Not only would the animal have looked like a floating hedgehog and been unpalatable to predators, but the spines would have made the animal appear larger, perhaps another deterrent to potential predators.

In his book 'Ammonites' Neale Monks notes that spines are not uncommon in (the rare) Triassic ammonites but became increasingly widespead and well developed through the Jurassic and into the Cretaceous. The spines were normally hollow, which meant that they were initially full of gas, the snapping off of a spine would have led to a loss of bouyancy in the animal via the gas escaping. For this reason as the animal grew the spines were sealed off at the base after they were formed, the bumps we find on the surface of some of these ammonites are really the sealed off stumps of the spine bases; many researchers refer to them as tubercles.

Odd that the nautiloids never really developed this feature....hmm....

If I had loads of spare cash I treat you to a phat fossil off Ebay ! :wink:

Aw, thanks!

Hi Phil, there's no rush ! :roll:
I didn't realise that the papers had been breeeding, so I've scanned the Heteromorph paper which also is tentacularlytastic :D
There still appears to be a great deal of debate & supposition surrounding
cephkind whether in the fossil record or existing species which is what helps to make them so fascinating.
Academically, Sir Steve O'Shea MBE OBE DFC is our leading light in terms of 21st century squidness & Neale Monks is a (if not "the") main fossil ceph player & between them I'm sure they'd be happy to admit we know a fraction of what there is to know about our fave subject.

From an engineering background & believing strongly in the "if it looks right...." approach & chaos theory joined with my new found knowledge of spiny ammonites coupled with 2 papers on ammonite locomotion I'd say we're dealing mainly with creatures that crawled about the sea bed, bobbed & swam freely about midwater & possibly did the same but on the surface.
Some couldn't swim, some could but badly, others could well.
(check out Markoceras Spitzerii)
Some looked up, some looked down, some predominantly looked up but could also look down & vice versa, others were clever dicks picking & choosing in which direction they looked at leisure.
Some were active predators, others scavengers & some nibbled a bit & had allotments.
I'd even bet my dinner money that some had feathers !

This is pure conjecture & should be read with an open mind but I believe that our nautiloid chums chose to remain unadorned purely not to look daft.

I'm glad I'm not (yet anyway) into trilobites coz I reckon I'd end up going
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD sir !!

p.s. Sorry about protuberances :oops: tubercles it is.

http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Permian/Images/per06.jpg
A spiny Permian nautiloid, Cooperoceras, on the right, looks like it fits on the sea floor. The smooth shelled ammonoid, left, looks like it should be higher in the water column, and going alot faster.

from the palaeos (http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Permian/Cisuralian.html) site

Kevin, I rest my case !
I don't know how you guys do it but WOW :notworth:
gadzooks ! you even sourced a Permian photo (if you really really want to impress tell me it's a video still).
I think you'll find the ammonoid you mention is in comm.s mode shortly to resume high speed, high altitude reconn. according to the radio transmission recording I found on Ebay.

somewhat off subject...and perhaps already known, but...
I found a great book on the sale table at Barnes and Noble last week...published in 2000, by Deborah Cadbury, called Terrible Lizard...all about the first fossil hunters...quite fascinating !
If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it !

G'day Greg, thanks for the tip & will add it to list . Well rated all round apart from Mr Picky of Sodding Chipbury :x
On similar vein, caught prog on National Geog on the 2 psychos engaged in all out war ripping up dinos early last century (Mantell & Owen peut etre ?). They even agreed (unless I'm seriously confused) that on death each would have his brain removed & weighed to find who had the greater intellect, once & for all. Needles to say, he who croaked last didn't play ball & the other guys grey matter resides in a jar ! what a perlum :roll:
I enjoyed it anyway :D

Thanks Greg, didn't know about "Terrible Lizards". Is this a different book to her previous one "Dinosaur Hunters", or is it the USA name for the same work? I'm a bit confused as that also dealt in the rivalry between Gideon Mantell and Richard Owen unless she has written two books on the same subject? There was a very interesting docu-drama about it over here a year last Christmas; Owen was very much cast as the arrogant career-obsessed bad guy who set out to destroy poor Mantell. Mantells twisted spine was horrific stuff!

The rivalry between Cope and Marsh could make a good drama too I'd imagine. As you say though, Spartacus, it does take a lot to please Mr Picky of Sodding Chipbury.

Cope & Marsh, Cope & Marsh !! I thought to myself "Mantell & Owen never heard of them !" that's because it was Cope & Marsh !
Back in 10 after I've had a quick swim :periscop: in Phil's vat of Omega 3.
& wasn't Phil's correction done SOOOOOO politely ! :thumbsup:

Hmm...being somewhat curious as to this Cope and Marsh brain dispute and having nothing better to do on this scorching hot afternoon, I have done some digging around for images of Cope's brain.

In one volume at home I found this rather amusing image of the completely sane Bob Bakker taking a volumetric reading of Cope's skull. Bakker has also pronounced Prof. Edward Drinker Cope as being the Type Specimen of Homo sapiens; I jest not!

I had a picture of it in my wallet but can I find it ! :x
Bob Bakker is credited as being wonderfully barking & his tulip bulbs, though a tad expensive, always come up a treat. :rainbow:

Here is a good summary of the feud

E. D. Cope (http://www.niagaramuseum.com/cope_article.htm)

There has been, and will be, more feuds, the Mantell-Owens was one I hadnt heard of.

I think there are a few that would like a feud (or a mild disagreement) with Bob Bakker.

Cephalopodologists are all sane and friendly though, aint we :D

that's them Kevin, not the other 2 ! :roll: I feel such an idiot :oops:
that's a really old web page you found there.
friendly's right

I've just added a few papers by Dr Neale Monks to the list. Enjoy!

Streuth I need a lie down :bonk:

And here are the points from Norway:

Cladistic Analysis of Albian Heteromorph Ammonites

way too heavy for my old grey cells. Though in 1997 Korn were actually working on "Follow the Leader" I believe :?

Cladistic analysis of a problematic ammonite group: the Hamitidae
(Cretaceous, Albian-Turonian) and proposals for new cladistic terms

No way José ! broke my WordWeb !

Heteromorph ammonites from the Tata limestone formation (Aptian-lower Albian), Hungary

Ahh, also known as "Things to do in Tata when you're there". now this was trés interesting, I once had a dog from Hungary, a Viszla no less called Frisbee so I've connections to things goulashian, next time I'm out that way I'll go for a tap with the BFH :D

Sea-level change & rock-record bias in the Cretaceous: a problem for extinction & biodiversity studies

Real heavy start & WordWeb substituted taphonomic with taphephobic
with is a morbid fear of being buried alive which on reflection isn't entirely inapproprite. By the conclusion I had got to grips & was quite intrigued.

Keep 'em coming Phil :notworth: & here's a Scrumpy Jack :beer: for your efforts

Fossil Cephalopod Sonification (http://www.nagt.org/files/nagt/jge/abstracts/Ekdale_v53n3p271.pdf)
Looks like a job for Led Zepplin 8-) :rainbow:

Introduction (http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-852761-6.pdf)
A great intoduction to Cephalopods, Present and Past. 8-)

Fossil Cephalopod Sonification (http://www.nagt.org/files/nagt/jge/abstracts/Ekdale_v53n3p271.pdf)
Looks like a job for Led Zepplin 8-) :rainbow:

Good heavens! That's one of the strangest pieces of fossil related research I have ever come across. I'm looking forward to Kevin placing his entire ammonoid collection onto CD so that we can listen to 'March of the Goniatites' as we are browsing TONMO.

....Suture patterns of ammonoid cephalopods readily lend themselves to sonification. An ammonoid suture is the line of intersection between the edge of a folded septum (internal chamber wall) with the outer wall of the cephalopod shell. The sutures can be represented as wiggly lines in two dimensions (plotted in x-y space). As exemplified in virtually any invertebrate paleontology textbook, the various groups of ammonoids possess highly characteristic suture patterns, which have important taxonomic significance for identifying ammonoid taxa from subclass down to species level.

Without any prior listening experience, almost anyone should be able to differentiate between the sounds of the most common categories of ammonoid suture patterns, such as goniatitic, ceratitic and ammonitic sutures. For example, a typical goniatitic suture with smooth lobes and saddles (Figure 1, top) will render a simple melody line that rises and falls smoothly as the melody flows along. In contrast, a ceratitic suture with secondary crenulations in the lobes (Figure 1,middle) will yield a melody line that rises and falls with smooth slurs in the high parts and small trills in the lowparts. An ammonitic suture with complexly folded lobes and saddles (Figure 1, bottom) will produce a much more complex melody line that is embellished like a flashy cadenza as it flies up and down through the high and low registers.....

...continues....

Activity - Students were asked to try to recognize the various genera of ammonoids that were provided in labby listening to their sonified sutures. Also, they experimented with the theremin in an attempt to sonify the sutures of the three principle kinds of ammonoids (goniatites, ceratites and ammonites). First, computer-generated suture lines of a dozen common genera of shelled cephalopods were played for the class on an audio CD player, so that the students could hear what a sonified suture might sound like. By simply listening, everyone in the class was able to distinguish between the general categories of goniatitic, ceratitic and ammonitic suture patterns with 100 per cent accuracy. Further, they were able to identify the particular genera of ammonoids with an accuracy of about two out of three. Then the students were instructed to take turns with the theremin. Each student chose an ammonoid genus and played its suture on theremin for the rest of the class, and the other students were asked to determine which genus of ammonoid they were listening to. Again, the other students were able to identify the particular genera of ammonoids with an accuracy of about two out of three.

.....continues......

If it catches on this could lead to a swathe of new talent to our screens !
Naut King Coleoid for starters ? (sorry, got nothing better to do)
Keef

It just so happens that the sonification of the earliest nautiloid suture pattern is G, A, F, (octave lower) F, C :shock:

in which case Kevin (as the resident sonification expert:grad: ) is there a particular suture which matches "Love me Tender" i.e. G C B C D A D C B A B C (think that's right)

Keef

Hounddogoceras elvisi :wink:

Kevin, this could run & run but I ain't gonna go there as I've already had my knuckles rapped for being immature on another fossiliferous forum :tomato: (like I care :lol:). Rumour has it I may soon post something interesting.

Keef

I've already had my knuckles rapped for being immature on another fossiliferous forum :tomato:

Don't you worry, Mr Keef, sir. This isn't that forum....we all like a good laugh here. If you don't carry on posting irreverent stuff (as well as the 'good and true' stuff), I'll come round and arrange a peculiar display of Psiloceras planorbis in the shape of a mocking skull outside your front door in the middle of the night.

Well, I can't do it now can I? You'd know it was me. Maybe I'd better use a different ammonite to confuse you.

Cool ! why did I waste my time there ? just for that I'm definitely, without fail, gonna post some goodies from Normandy this w/e. hopefully:grin:
Phil, you can stack as many Psiloceras planorbis outside my hovel as you like coz I ain't got one of them. Had a good trip to Longeville sur Mer on my birthday & came away with some goodstuff & a couple of bigguns besides but currently have absolutely no idea whatsoever what they are or when they were from other than Jurassic !

Keef

Most excellent, good sir. I shall look forward to seeing your latest Horns of Ammon. I can't guarantee being able to identify them (I've got a very poor history of that), but it's always fun trying.

(Just as well I've got to go out in a mo; I was tempted to knock up an Elvis Ammonite on photoshop for you).

(Just as well I've got to go out in a mo; I was tempted to knock up an Elvis Ammonite on photoshop for you).

Phil, you do know what "knock up" means over here on this side of the Pond, don't you? The mental image that you just conjured is, well, rather disturbing. Especially with the sideburns...

:elvis: :ammonite: :shock:

Erich, I got a fleeting glimpse of that image too, but then I did'nt see the sideburns. :lol:




Hows about

Elvisites gracelandensis :nautiloi:

told you this could run & run :lol:

Keef

An older paper The Origin of the Cephalopoda (http://www.paleo.pan.pl/people/Dzik/Publications/Cephalopoda.pdf) (Dzik 1981) found while on a trail blazed by Phil in this thread (http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5663). Some interesting phylogenies 8-)

Wow, Kevin what a find, thank you!

An older paper but from a skim read absolutely fascinating. I'll add it to the 'papers' thread straight away.

:plectrono :earlynaut :thumbsup:

Tanabe, K., Hikida, Y., and Iba, Y., 2006, Two Coleoid Jaws from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 138-145

A new giant squid described from the Cretaceous of Japan Yezoteuthis giganteus about the same size as Architeuthis
based on the upper jaw dimensions

Merry Christmas

Thanks for this Kevin. I'd like to get hold of that paper so that I could update the Tusoteuthis article. It does not seem to be available on the net at the moment, but hopefully it will be in early 2006. I wonder if it is the same animal as Tusoteuthis? As far as I know no beaks of that other Cretaceous giant have been found, so I suppose it would be impossible to know for sure.

Have a good day today!

The abstract (http://www.psjournals.org/paleoonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0022-3360&volume=080&issue=01&page=0138) to the Tanabe, K., Hikida, Y., and Iba, Y., 2006 paper has been posted. :smile:

Thanks for that Kevin. I think the whole paper is available via the link too. Apologies to ask again, but is anyone able to help in obtaining a copy? Please pm me if one can.

It'd be good to update the Tusoteuthis article.

Orientation of cephalopod shells in illustrations

Palaeontology 33 1990

Sven Stridsberg


I dont think many cephalopod workers bought into this. I dont think I have seen any recent papers showing shells in a life position. I know I was told (by a professional paleontologist) to illustrate the shells in the traditional, upside down, orientation. Of course I dont really follow any convention as you can see in the morphology article, most are upside down, but some are not. :razz:

Serious point.

Does anyone use the resource of papers linked to in the 'New Papers on Fossil Cephalopods' forum?

I really don't mind tracking down papers if they are of interest and of use to readers. However, if no-one is using the resource, I've plenty of other things I could be getting on with. :smile:

Phil, I usually read them though sometimes i need an interpreter.


Just went to check them and got 404 error.

Thanks bigGdelta.

Phil, I usually read them though sometimes i need an interpreter.

You and me too!

Just went to check them and got 404 error.

That's odd. I've checked most of them in the last month or so to see if the links are still active. Maybe you have problems with your service provider? If there are any particular papers you are having problems with, let me know and I'll see if I can find an alternative link or forward you a downloaded copy if I have one.

Cheers!

just updated to adobe 7.05 and the problem went away.

Serious point.

Does anyone use the resource of papers linked to in the 'New Papers on Fossil Cephalopods' forum?

I really don't mind tracking down papers if they are of interest and of use to readers. However, if no-one is using the resource, I've plenty of other things I could be getting on with. :smile:

Yes

Please post links to all 10,500,003 papers on fossil cephalopods that are or will be available on the web. :wink:

I think maybe just some of the ones that are pertinent to active threads, or that announce ground-breaking discoveries would suffice.

It looks like alot of museums are putting their old papers on the web for free download, maybe just a link to these sites search page would be OK.

Anyway, thanks for all your hard work on this Phil. :notworth: :notworth:

Re: above, thanks Kevin!

Tanabe, K., Hikida, Y., and Iba, Y., 2006, Two Coleoid Jaws from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 138-145

The abstract is as follows:

TWO COLEOID JAWS FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF HOKKAIDO, JAPAN
Issn: 0022-3360 Journal: Journal of Paleontology Volume: 80 Issue: 1 Pages: 138-145
Authors: TANABE, KAZUSHIGE, HIKIDA, YOSHINORI, IBA, YASUHIRO
DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2006)080[0138:TCJFTU]2.0.CO;2


ABSTRACT

Two isolated cephalopod jaws recovered from the middle Turonian of the Obira area and the Campanian of the Nakagawa area, Hokkaido, Japan, consist of short outer, and large and posteriorly elongated inner “chitinous” lamellae, with a sharply pointed rostrum in the outer lamella. These features are common with the upper jaws of Recent cephalopods. Comparison with the upper jaws of ammonoids and Recent cephalopods indicates that the two Cretaceous upper jaws are attributed to the Coleoidea other than the Octopodida. This assignment is also suggested by the cladistic analysis of the Nakagawa specimen compared with five upper jaw characters on 22 Recent cephalopod species. The Obira specimen differs from the Nakagawa specimen in having a much smaller jaw and a larger jaw angle, but its order-level assignment could not be determined because of imperfect preservation. The Nakagawa specimen shares several common features with the upper jaws of Recent Oegopsina; thus we assigned its higher systematic position to this suborder. Based on the extremely large upper jaw (97 mm maximum length), a new genus and species (Yezoteuthis giganteus) is proposed. This new taxon would have been as large as the modern giant squid Architeuthis, which commonly exceeds more than 5 m in body length. Our study postulates that studies of jaws are important to reconstruct the phylogeny of the Coleoidea.

Is anyone able to help with obtaining the article? If so, please drop me a line.

It's available here (http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-document&issn=0022-3360&volume=080&issue=01&page=0138).

Thanks!

Originally posted by PhilDoes anyone use the resource of papers linked to in the 'New Papers on Fossil Cephalopods' forum?

I do read them until I get :bonk: , but sometimes they make me feel like I've lost too many brain cells to ever understand another scientific paper.

Please keep posting them, thanks.

Thanks for that Kevin. I think the whole paper is available via the link too. Apologies to ask again, but is anyone able to help in obtaining a copy? Please pm me if one can.

It'd be good to update the Tusoteuthis article.

Scratch this, thanks to Monty I have a copy. Thank you sir.


I do read them until I get :bugout: , but sometimes they make me feel like I've lost too many brain cells to ever understand another scientific paper.

To be honest, I often just have a stab at the Abstract and Conclusions/Summary to get the gist and only try to understand he rest if it particularly interests me. You should see some of the papers I've stumbled across and NOT linked to, endless equations and ammonoid suture algebra. Yikes!

I swear I used to be smart. till I started reading those papers and exploding brain cells

PHRAGMOTEUTHIDA (CEPHALOPODA: COLEOIDEA) FROM THE LOWER JURASSIC OF DORSET, ENGLAND (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00552.x)

SIPHUNCULAR STRUCTURE IN SOME FOSSIL COLEOIDS AND RECENT SPIRULA (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00533.x)

LATE EARLY SINEMURIAN (EARLY JURASSIC) AMMONITES FROM THE TASEKO LAKES MAP AREA, BRITISH COLUMBIA (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00558.x)

All in the latest issue of Palaeontology (May 2006)

Thanks Kevin.

If you don't mind I won't add them to the Papers thread because one can only look at an abstract rather than the whole article without paying the full whack for access. I aimed to keep the 'New Papers' thread purely for full papers that anyone can access, otherwise it could be rather frustrating for the reader.

8-)

In this months issue of Palaeontology:


SOME LESSER KNOWN FEATURES OF THE ANCIENT CEPHALOPOD ORDER ELLESMEROCERIDA (NAUTILOIDEA, CEPHALOPODA); BJÖRN KRÖGER (2007) (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00644.x)

support for Tryblidian ancestry ?