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A bathymetric study of 28 species of nautiloids from the ‘Orthoceras limestone’ facies of the Upper Silurian of SW Sardinia using the methods of Hewitt and Westermann (1988) has indicated that the orthoconic and cyrtoconic fauna lived in a shallow environment during the late Wenlock to Ludlow and in a deeper basinal environment for the Pridoli. The environments deduced from the habitat depths of the nautiloid fauna are deeper than those previously implied from other studies.
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Histon, K., Gnoli, M. (1999). Nautiloid Paleobathymetry from the Silurian ‘Orthoceras Limestone’ Facies of SW Sardinia, Italy. In: Olóriz, F., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. (eds) Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4837-9_27
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