Spirulida is an order of cephalopods represented today by a single living species, Spirula spirula, alongside a number of extinct taxa recorded from the Late Jurassic onward. The order is organized into three suborders, two of them extinct, Groenlandibelina and Belopterina, and one, Spirulina, containing the surviving lineage. The living species belongs to the family Spirulidae, within the superorder Decapodiformes of the class Cephalopoda, and is the last survivor of a lineage with a fossil record stretching back well over a hundred million years.
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Source Wikidata: Ram's Horn Squid
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ1370442, descriptionView the Source 2. Wikipedia: Spirulida
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Spirulida is an order of cephalopods comprising one extant species (Spirula spirula) and several extinct taxa.
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Spirulida is an order of cephalopods comprising one extant species (Spirula spirula) and several extinct taxa.
View the Source Wikidata: Spirulida
Wikidata Q1370442, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikidata: Ram's Horn Squid
WikidataParent Taxon Of: Ram's Horn Squid, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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