Ammoniten mit Kieferapparat und Radula aus Lias-Geschieben |
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Authors: | Ulrich Lehmann |
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Affiliation: | 1. Geologisches Staatsinstitut, Von-Melle-Park 11, 2, 13, Hamburg
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Abstract: | Jaws and radula have been found in two adult microconch specimens of the Liassic ammonite speciesEleganticeras elegantulum (Young & Bird, 1828) from glacial drift boulders near Hamburg. They are more similar to those of recent dibranchiates than ofNautilus, the radula having seven longitudinal rows of teeth instead of thirteen in recentNautilus. Since bothOwens classification of the cephalopods into Dibranchiata and Tetrabranchiata according to the number of gills (which cannot be observed in fossil cephalopods) andSchwarz’ division into Ecto- and Endocochlia according to the (assumed) relative position of body and shell are rather unfortunate, the radula is suggested as a sound basis of classification. It is acceptable to paleo- as well as to neozoologists. As yet, the known evidence is sufficient for a twofold division only: Class Cephalopoda Subclass Lateradulata: Nautiloidea Subclass Angusteradulata: Ammonoidea Coleoidea |
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