Cephalopod Collection (page 5)

Pronorites cyclolobus, ammonoid
An extinct, marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Manticoceras acutum, ammonoid
An extinct, marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Phragmoceras sp. nautiloid
An extinct marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Sepia craveri, fossil cuttlefish
An extinct marine fossil invertebrate, a relative to todays cuttlefish from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Actinoceras oreleriseptum, nautiloid
An extinct, long-shelled or orthoconic marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

A fossil Kosmoceras, ammonite
Kosmoceras, a genus of ammonite which lived during the Jurassic period

Barrandeoceras sp
A fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Architeutis dux, giant squid
This 8.62-metre giant squid (Architeutis dux), called Archie, was caught off the coast of the Falkland Islands in March 2004

Goniatites sp. goniatite
An extinct, marine fossil goniatite from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs), sub-class Ammonoidea. Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Scaphites nodosus, ammonite
This Cretaceous ammonite originates from The Badlands, South Dakota, U.S.A. This specimen retains much of its original shell giving it a beautiful pearly lustre

William Buckland (1784-1856)
Print annotated in pencil Dr Buckland Dean of Westminster. Buckland was an English geologist and palaeontologist, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur

Nautilus sp. nautilus shell
A carved nautilus shell, c. 1600 from the Sir Hans Sloane collection

Octopus sp
Plate 126 from the Loten Collection, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, 1754-57

Belemnitella mucronata, belemnite
71-65 million year old squid-like belemnite specimen from the Late Cretaceous, Mstricht, Holland

Fossil ammonites used as memorial stone
Asteroceras marstonense (larger ammonites) and Promicroceras marstonensis (smaller ammonites) used as a memorial stone. Specimen originates from Spath Lower Lias, Marston Magna, Somerset, England

Cylindroteuthis oweni Pratt, thunderbolt

Octopus illustration
Plate 20, watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from the plate collection of the Murray Library

Squid illustration
Tableau 3 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

Rudgea eriantha
Finsihed watercolour drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Ceratites amoena

Ammonite selection
Three ammonites as follows: (Left to right) Oistoceras wrighti; Asteroceras obtusum (zonal index species); Tragophylloceras loscombi all specimens originate from the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis

Orthoconic nautiloid, originating from near Castleton, England. The more unusual straight-shelled species belonging to the same group as ammonites and to todays living nautilus

Asteroceras obtusum, ammonite
Shown here is a Jurassic ammonite. Ammonites are an extinct group of fossil cephalopods related to todays Nautilus

Asteroceras marstonensis and Promicroceras, ammonites

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