Spirulida

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title: "Spirulida" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["spirulida", "cephalopod-orders", "cenozoic-cephalopods"] description: "Order of cephalopods" topic_path: "general/spirulida" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulida" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Order of cephalopods ::

| fossil_range = | image = Spirula spirula4.jpg | image_caption = Spirula spirula | taxon = Spirulida | authority = Stolley, 1919 | subdivision_ranks = Suborders | subdivision = †Groenlandibelina

†Belopterina

Spirulina | synonyms =

Spirulida is an order of cephalopods comprising one extant species (Spirula spirula) and several extinct taxa.

Fossil record

• Oldest representative: Carboniferous, though contested: see Shimanskya
• Oldest uncontested representative: Late Jurassic

Classification

Taxa marked with † are extinct.

• Order Spirulida
  • Family †Shimanskyidae
  • Suborder †Groenlandibelina Khromov, 1990
    • Family †Groenlandibelidae
    • Family †Adygeyidae
  • Suborder †Belopterina Engeser, 1998
    • Family †Belemnoseidae
    • Family †Belopteridae
  • Suborder Spirulina Pompeckj, 1912
    • Family †Spirulirostridae
    • Family †Spirulirostrinidae
    • Family Spirulidae

References

• Tree of Life: Spirulida
• The Taxonomicon: Order Spirulida
• Mikko's Phylogeny Archive: Spirulida

References

1. (2012). "Taxonomy, morphology and phylogeny of Late Cretaceous spirulid coleoids (Cephalopoda) from Greenland and Canada". Palaeontology.

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