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Ancestry, Origin and Early Evolution of Ammonoids

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Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography

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Abstract

In order to put the origin of the Ammonoidea into the broader evolutionary context, we review the hypothesis on the origin of cephalopods in general, the origin of bactritids as well as the origin of bactritids with their respective Bauplan characters. We also list major morphological changes that occurred between the origin of cephalopods until the early evolution of ammonoids.

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We thank the Swiss National Science Foundation for funding the research that produced some of the results reviewed herein (SNF project numbers 200021–113956⁄ 1, 200020-25029, and 200020-132870). Dieter Korn (Berlin) and Isabelle Kruta (Paris) kindly reviewed the manuscript and helped to improve it significantly.

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Klug, C., Kröger, B., Vinther, J., Fuchs, D., De Baets, K. (2015). Ancestry, Origin and Early Evolution of Ammonoids. In: Klug, C., Korn, D., De Baets, K., Kruta, I., Mapes, R. (eds) Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography. Topics in Geobiology, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9633-0_1

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