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Mixosiphonata

Mixosiphonata is an extinct order of nautiloids that lived from the Carboniferous to the Early Cretaceous. It currently includes the genera Boggyoceras, Zhuravlevia, and possibly Ctenobactrites. They were the latest surviving orthoconic nautiloids, which had otherwise gone extinct in the Late Triassic.

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Mixosiphonata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: †Mixosiphonata
Mutvei, 20171
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Mixosiphonata is an extinct order of nautiloids that lived from the Carboniferous to the Early Cretaceous. It currently includes the genera Boggyoceras, Zhuravlevia, and possibly Ctenobactrites.1 They were the latest surviving orthoconic nautiloids, which had otherwise gone extinct in the Late Triassic.2

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  1. Mutvei, H. (2017). "The new order Mixosiphonata (Cephalopoda: Nautiloidea) and related taxa; estimations of habitat depth based on shell structure". GFF. 139 (3): 219–232. Bibcode:2017GFF...139..219M. doi:10.1080/11035897.2017.1330278.
  2. Doguzhaeva, L.A. (1994). "An Early Cretaceous orthocerid cephalopod from north-western Caucasus". Palaeontology. 37 (4): 889–899.