cautious
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Human-sized sea scorpions and enormous nautiloids with pointed shells stretching up to five meters hunted through the water.
From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026
Reefs built by microbes gave way to some of the first coral reefs, trilobites grew larger, and tentacled predators such as nautiloids diversified and swarmed the mostly fishless seas.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 18, 2019
Throughout he is a companionable guide, as good at breathing life into the fossilized prose of scientific papers as he is at conjuring the Ordovician reign of the nautiloids.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2017
At the end of the Cambrian, mollusks, brachiopods, nautiloids, gastropods, graptolites, echinoderms and trilobites had evolved and shared the seafloor.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
The descent of the ammonites, taken as a group, is simple and clear; they arose as a branch of the nautiloids in the lower Devonian, the shells known as goniatites having zigzag, angulated sutures.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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