''Heminautilus'' is an extinct genus of nautiloids from the nautilacean family Cenoceratidae that lived during the Early Cretaceous. Fossils of ''Heminautilus'' have been registered in rocks of Barremian and Aptian age.''Heminautilus''
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Nautiloids Nautiloids are a group of marine cephalopods (Mollusca) which originated in the Late Cambrian and are represented today by the living ''Nautilus'' and ''Allonautilus''. Fossil nautiloids are diverse and speciose, with over 2,500 recorded species ...

are a subclass of shelled cephalopods that were once diverse and numerous but are now represented by only a handful of species. ''Heminautilus'' has a discoidal compressed involute shell with flanks converging on a narrow flattened outer margin, the venter. Whorls are higher than they are wide. The suture is sinuous with a ventral lobe, subtriangular saddles on the ventral shoulders, broad lateral lobes, and narrow rounded saddles on the umbilical shoulders. The siphuncle is subcentral., 1964

Species

The following species of ''Heminautilus'' have been described: * ''H. boselliorum'' * ''H. etheringtoni'' * ''H. japonicus'' * ''H. lallierianus'' * ''H. rangei'' * ''H. sanctaecrucis'' * ''H. saxbii'' * ''H. stantoni'' * ''H. tejeriensis'' * ''H. tyosiensis'' * ''H. verneuilli''

Distribution

Fossils of ''Heminautilus'' have been found in Bulgaria, Colombia (at Caballos Formation, Boyacá, Tolima and Une Formation),Baudouin et al., 2016, p.87 Egypt,Baudouin, 2016, p.76 France, Hungary,Baudouin, 2016, p.66 Japan, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Tunesia,Baudouin, 2016, p.72 the United Kingdom, the United States (Arkansas), Venezuela.

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