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Cephalopoda Collection

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Giant octopus

Giant octopus
Plate 26 from Histoire naturelle des Mollusques by Count Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon, 1805

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Extinct marine reptiles

Extinct marine reptiles
Sheet 1 of a series of posters called Extinct Animals by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Asteroceras, fossil ammonite

Asteroceras, fossil ammonite
A 16 cm diameter specimen of the Jurassic ammonite Asteroceras from the Lower Jurassic of Dorset, England

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Octopus

Octopus
Watercolour 401 by the Port Jackson Painter, from the Watling Collection

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Argonauta hians, brown paper nautilus

Argonauta hians, brown paper nautilus
A pair of brown paper nautilus (Argonauta hians). This delicate-shelled cephalopod is distributed in warm seas globally

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Nautilus pompilius, common nautilus

Nautilus pompilius, common nautilus
A section through a common nautilus (Nautilus pompiius) showing the internal divisions into chambers and siphuncles

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Sir Joseph Banks herbarium and library at Soho Square

Sir Joseph Banks herbarium and library at Soho Square
Sir Joseph Banks herbarium and part library in his house at 32 Soho Square, London. It remained there until 1827 when it was moved to the British Museum at Montagu House

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Belemnotheutis antiquus, squid

Belemnotheutis antiquus, squid
A well-preserved Upper Jurassic squid aged 160 million years. This specimen originates from Christian Malford, Wiltshire

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Seven squid and octopuses

Seven squid and octopuses
Tableau 2 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Common octopus, Octopus vulgaris

Common octopus, Octopus vulgaris (Eight-armed cuttlefish, Sepia octopus)

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Ommastrephes sagittatus, squid

Ommastrephes sagittatus, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Argonauta argo (female), octopus

Argonauta argo (female), octopus
A glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Dr Karl Jordan (1875-1972)

Dr Karl Jordan (1875-1972)
Curator of entomology at Walter Rothschilds Zoological Museum at Tring from 1893, beyond Rothschilds death and up to the transition to the Natural History Museum at Tring in 1938

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Emma Rothschild (1844-1935)

Emma Rothschild (1844-1935)
Mother of Tring Museum founder Walter Rothschild

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Emu, rheas and kangaroos at Tring Park

Emu, rheas and kangaroos at Tring Park
Live animals collected by Walter Rothschild in the grounds of Tring Park, with keeper Mr Marcham, 1890 Date: 1890

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1933

Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1933
Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1932

Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1932
Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Ichthyosaurus, Rhamphorhynchus, Plesiosaurus, Megalosaurus

Ichthyosaurus, Rhamphorhynchus, Plesiosaurus, Megalosaurus
Plate 82 Life on Jurassic Shores 165 Million Years Ago an illustration from Britain Before Man by F.W. Dunning et al (1978)

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Cretaceous chalk seafloor

Cretaceous chalk seafloor
An artists impression of a Cretaceous (144 to 65 million years ago) hard chalk seafloor, where an ammonite floats above crinoids, sea urchins, brachiopods, molluscs, and a lobster

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Plesiosaurus, Telesaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Pentacrinites, Ammo

Plesiosaurus, Telesaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Pentacrinites, Ammo
Sheet 1 of a series of posters called Extinct Animals by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862. This collection of marine reptiles lived during the Jurassic period between 200 and 145 million years ago

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Goniatites, fossil ammonite

Goniatites, fossil ammonite
In marked contrast to Dactylioceras, this Carboniferous Goniatites has a shell in which successive whols overlap stongly, giving a narrow, deep umbilicus

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Nipponites mirabilis, ammonite

Nipponites mirabilis, ammonite
This ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan displays a loose, tangled coil

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Chalk sea diorama

Chalk sea diorama
Diorama of Cretaceous (144 to 65 million years ago) sea floor chalk deposits, and various cephalopods

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Entomology, W. Rothschild Zoological Museum

Entomology, W. Rothschild Zoological Museum
The Museum was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum following Rothschilds death in 1937, along with its unique collections of preserved animals

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton (1829-1907), Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University in the late 19th Century

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Nautilus sp

Nautilus sp
Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1951). Watercolour on paper

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Hans Sloanes nautilus shell

Hans Sloanes nautilus shell
Sir Hans Sloane is perhaps the most important collector ever. His huge collection forms the core of both the British Museum and the Natural History Museum

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Various Mollusca and Crustacea species

Various Mollusca and Crustacea species
Watercolour from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, c.1820 Date: circa 1820

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Eledone cirrhosa, Curled Octopus

Eledone cirrhosa, Curled Octopus
Illustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, marked Sepia octopodia

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Verania sicula, squid

Verania sicula, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Tremoctopus velifer, octopus

Tremoctopus velifer, octopus
A glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Sepioteuthis sicula. jpg

Sepioteuthis sicula. jpg
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Sepiola rondeletii, squid

Sepiola rondeletii, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Sepia officinalis, squid

Sepia officinalis, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Sepia elegans, squid

Sepia elegans, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Rossia dispar, squid

Rossia dispar, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Philonexia catenulatus, octopus

Philonexia catenulatus, octopus
A glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Onychoteuthis lichtensteinii, squid

Onychoteuthis lichtensteinii, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Onychia platyptera, squid

Onychia platyptera, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Ommastrephes sagittatus, squid

Ommastrephes sagittatus, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Octopus vulgaris, octopus

Octopus vulgaris, octopus
A glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Rasenia uralensi, ammonite

Rasenia uralensi, ammonite
A fossil ammonite from the Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridge clay, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. An ammonite has a coiled, chambered shell and is an extinct mollusc

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Histioteuthis bonelliana, squid

Histioteuthis bonelliana, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Loligo vulgaris, squid

Loligo vulgaris, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Enoploteuthis veranii, squid

Enoploteuthis veranii, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Enoploteuthis owenii, squid

Enoploteuthis owenii, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Argonauta argo (males), octopus

Argonauta argo (males), octopus
A glass model of two octopuses, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Psiloceras planorbis, nacreous ammonite

Psiloceras planorbis, nacreous ammonite
These specimens of Psiloceras planorbis are Britains earliest ammonites. Part of the William Smith collection

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Belemnotheutis antiquus

Belemnotheutis antiquus
A well-preserved Upper Jurassic squid aged 160 million years. This specimen originates from the famous clay deposits in Wiltshire

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Cuttlefish dissection drawing

Cuttlefish dissection drawing
Table LI, taken from Bibel der Natur byJan Swammerdamm

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: The Tank Room, Darwin Centre

The Tank Room, Darwin Centre
The Tank Room in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Aturia sp. nautilus

Aturia sp. nautilus
Watercolour by Alice B. Woodward, c. 1880. Drawings 1 and 2 have had their shells removed, drawing 3 is a cross section of the shell and drawing 4 is an apical (open end) view

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Shell Gallery, May 1911

Shell Gallery, May 1911
New attractions for visitors in 1907, four years before this image was taken, included life-size models of an octopus and a giant squid in the Shell Gallery (now the Jerwood Galllery)

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Detail of terracotta moulding of an octopus in the Waterhous

Detail of terracotta moulding of an octopus in the Waterhous

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Bactrites carinatus, nautiloid

Bactrites carinatus, nautiloid
This straight nautiloid Bactrites carinatus originates from the Devonian of Germany

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Nautilus pompilius, nautilus

Nautilus pompilius, nautilus
Specimen shell of the nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), which has been sectioned to show body chamber (largest section), septa (individual chambers) and siphuncle (tube canal)

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Brasilia bradfordensis, ammonite

Brasilia bradfordensis, ammonite
This Middle Jurassic ammonite has been sectioned to show its chambers with calcite crystals formed in some and hardened mud in others. The body chamber is missing

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Parkinsonia dorsetensis, ammonite

Parkinsonia dorsetensis, ammonite
This ammonite has an evolute shell and is displaying complex suture lines. Specimen originates from the Middle Jurassic

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Aegocrioceras quadratus, ammonite

Aegocrioceras quadratus, ammonite
This Lower Cretaceous crytocone ammonite displays whorls which do not touch each other but form an open spiral

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Plate 76 from the John Reeves Collection

Plate 76 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: LS Plate 83 from the John Reeves Collection

LS Plate 83 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Darwins Octopus

Darwins Octopus
A specimen held in the Natural History Museum, London, of an octopus collected by Charles Darwin

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Plate 42 from Mineralogie Volume 1 (1790)

Plate 42 from Mineralogie Volume 1 (1790)
Coupe de la corne d ammons don?t chacunes des cazes, renferme une variete particuliere du Spath calcaire. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.1 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Nautilus pompilius, nautilus

Nautilus pompilius, nautilus

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Oxynoticeras oxynotum, ammonite

Oxynoticeras oxynotum, ammonite
Shown here is the ventral view of this Lower Jurassic oxycone ammonite

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Aulacostephanus autissiodorensis, ammonite

Aulacostephanus autissiodorensis, ammonite
Shown here is an Upper Jurassic macroconch (larger form) ammonite. Despite some damage to the shell, the fine ribbing is still apparent

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Dactylioceras commune, ammonite

Dactylioceras commune, ammonite
This shows a Lower Jurassic snakestone from Whitby, Yorkshire, UK where a snakes head has been carved onto the ammonite

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Dactylioceras commune, snakestone ammonite

Dactylioceras commune, snakestone ammonite
Snakestone ammonite (Dactylioceras commune) (J. Sowerby) a lectotype specimen from Toarcian, Upper Liassic, Bifrons Zone, Whitby, U.k

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Concretions with ammonites (saligrams)

Concretions with ammonites (saligrams)

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Actinoceras sp. nautiloid

Actinoceras sp. 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

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Octopus ceiling panel

Octopus ceiling panel
A photograph of one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Showing a black and white painting of an octopus

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Belemnite longitudinal section to show phragmocone

Belemnite longitudinal section to show phragmocone
A longitudinal section of a belemnite (Acrocoelites vulgaris) from Toarcian, Alum Shales, Ravenscar, Yks; unreg

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Aulacoceras sulcatum, belemnite

Aulacoceras sulcatum, belemnite
An extinct marine fossil known as a belemnite. These are invertebrates from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Vestinautilus cariniferous, nautiloid

Vestinautilus cariniferous, nautiloid
An extinct, coiled-shelled marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Wasatchites tridentinus, ammonoid

Wasatchites tridentinus, ammonoid
An extinct, marine fossil invertebrate with a heavily ribbed, coiled shell from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857, squid

Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857, squid
The squid was caught by the Falkland registered trawler John Cheek, on 15 March 2004 It was caught at a depth of 220m, 15.6 km north west of Port Stephens Settlement

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Gomphoceras pyriforme, nautiloid

Gomphoceras pyriforme, nautiloid
An extinct, egg-shaped marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Gonioteuthis, a fossil belemnite

Gonioteuthis, a fossil belemnite
Guard of the belemnite Gonioteuthis, 8 cm long, from the Cretaceous Chalk of Salisbury, England

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Plesioteuthis sp. belemnite

Plesioteuthis sp. belemnite
An extinct marine fossil known as a belemnite. These are invertebrates from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Acanthoteuthis (Belemnoteuthis) speciosus, belemnite

Acanthoteuthis (Belemnoteuthis) speciosus, belemnite
An extinct, marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Gonioclymenia laevigata, ammonoid

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

Background imageCephalopoda Collection: Dactylioceras, fossil ammonite

Dactylioceras, fossil ammonite
Dactylioceras, represented here by a 9.5 cm wide individual, is a characteristic and abundant ammonite in the Lower Jurassic of north Yorkshire, England



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