Coleoidea

Coleoidea
Temporal range: Devonian or Carboniferous–Recent
Juvenile cephalopod from plankton
Antarctica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Coleoidea
Bather, 1888
Orders

Subclass Coleoidea,[1][2] or Dibranchiata, is the grouping of cephalopods containing all the primarily soft-bodied creatures. Unlike its sister group Nautiloidea, whose members have a rigid outer shell for protection, the coleoids have at most an internal bone or shell that is used for buoyancy or support (usually a cuttlebone or gladius). Some species have lost their bone altogether, while in some it has been replaced by a cartilaginous support structure.

The major dividings of Coleoidea are based upon the number of arms or tentacles and their structure. The extinct and most primitive form, the Belemnoidea, presumably had ten equally sized arms, in five pairs numbered dorsal to ventral as I, II, III, IV and V. More modern species either modified or lost a pair of arms. The superorder Decapodiformes has arm pair IV modified into long tentacles with suckers generally only on the club-shaped distal end. Superorder Octopodiformes has modifications to arm pair II; it is significantly reduced and used only as a sensory filament in the Vampyromorphida, while Octopoda species have totally lost that arm pair.

Evolutionary history

The earliest certain coleoids are known from the Mississippian sub-period of the Carboniferous Period, about 330 million years ago. Some older fossils have been described from the Devonian,[3] but paleontologists disagree about whether they are coleoids.[4] Other cephalopods with internal shells, which could represent coleoids but may also denote the independent internalization of the shell, are known from the Silurian.[5] It is possible that the Early–Middle Cambrian fossil Nectocaris represents a coleoid (or other cephalopod) that lost its shell, possibly secondarily.[6][7]

By the Carboniferous, coleoids already had a diversity of forms. Although most of these groups are traditionally classified as belemnoids, the variation among them suggests that some are not closely related to belemnites.[8]

Classification

Holotype of Ostenoteuthis siroi from family Ostenoteuthidae.

References

  1. ↑ From Greek koleos, sheath
  2. ↑ Marion Nixon and J.Z. Young. (2003). The brains and lives of cephalopods. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852761-6.
  3. ↑ Bandel, Klaus, Reitner, J., & Sturmer, W. (1983). "Coleoids from the Lower Devonian Black Slate ("Hunsruck-Schiefer")". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen (Stuttgart) 165 (3): 397–417.
  4. ↑ Nishiguchi, Michelle, & Mapes, Royal K. (2008). "Cephalopoda". In Ponder, Winston F., & Lindberg, David R. Phylogeny and evolution of the Mollusca. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. pp. 163–199. ISBN 978-0-520-25092-5.
  5. ↑ Turek V; Manda Š. "An endocochleate experiment" in the Silurian straight-shelled cephalopod Sphooceras". Bulletin of Geosciences 87 (4): 767–813. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1335.
  6. ↑ Smith, M. R.; Caron, J. B. (2010). "Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian". Nature 465 (7297): 469–472. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..469S. doi:10.1038/nature09068. PMID 20505727.
  7. ↑ Smith, M. R. (2013). "Nectocaridid ecology, diversity and affinity: early origin of a cephalopod-like body plan". Paleobiology 39 (2): 291–321. doi:10.1666/12029.
  8. ↑ Doguzhaeva, Larisa A., Mapes, Royal H., & Mutvei, Harry (2007). Landman, Neil H., Davis, Richard Arnold, & Mapes, Royal H., ed. "Cephalopods Present & Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives". Berkeley & Los Angeles, California, USA: University of California Press. pp. 121–143. |chapter= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ Garassino, A.; Donovan, D. T. (2000). "A New Family of Coleoids from the Lower Jurassic of Osteno, Northern Italy". Palaeontology 43 (6): 1019. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00160.

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