Definition: Active swimming organisms that live in the water column and are able to move independently of the water mass (adapted from Lincoln et al., 1998).
Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
Definition: Marine sediment that accumulates within shallow regions of the oceanic basin close to continents, such as the continental shelf, or continental slope
Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Argonauts and Paper Nautiluses
Argonauts and Paper Nautiluses Habitats
The environments in which many Argonauts and Paper Nautiluses species are known to live. Select an environment to see its Argonauts and Paper Nautiluses species checklist.
The environments in which many Argonauts and Paper Nautiluses species are known to live. Select an environment to see its Argonauts and Paper Nautiluses species checklist.
Argonauts and Paper Nautiluses includes 2 children:
