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Nautilus clarkanus

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"Nautilus" clarkanus
Temporal range: Carboniferous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Nautilida
Family: Nautilidae
Genus: Nautilus
Species:
N. clarkanus
Binomial name
Nautilus clarkanus
Hall, 1858

"Nautilus" clarkanus is an extinct species of nautiloid. It lived during the Lower Carboniferous. Fossil specimens have been uncovered in the Spergen Hill Limestone formation of Indiana.

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