Morphological disparity in extant and extinct sepiid phragmocones: morphological adaptions for phragmocone strength compared to those related to cameral liquid emptying hypotheses

Ward, Peter D.; Veloso, Job Lukas; Klug, Christian

doi:10.1186/s13358-022-00248-0

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

Table 1 Measurements of Sepiid cuttlebones arranged in different subgenera, showing ratios of different morphological features

From: Morphological disparity in extant and extinct sepiid phragmocones: morphological adaptions for phragmocone strength compared to those related to cameral liquid emptying hypotheses

	Known maximum depth (m)	Mantle length (mm)	Width/length	Length of siphon/area of lost loculus	% last loculus/total area	Length of siphon/area of last loculus	% last loculus/total area
Acanthosepia
S. stellifera	200	120	0.339	0.016	0.24777758	0.06274	0.24777758
S. smithi	138	150	0.334	0.013	0.284545469	0.04581	0.28454547
S. lycidas	100	380	0.336	0.015	0.356751892	0.04103	0.35675189
S. brevimana	100	110	0.456	0.009	0.397916395	0.0238	0.39791639
S. savignyi	50	190	0.38	0.007	0.417670274	0.01673	0.41767027
S. cultrata	803	120	0.35	0.006	0.420648653	0.01342	0.42064865
S. recurvirostra	140	170	0.287	0.009	0.460575349	0.01954	0.46057535
S. whitleyana	128		0.37	0.005	0.472523984	0.00967	0.47252398
S. esculenta	100	180	0.316	0.005	0.520144394	0.01032	0.52014439
S. rozella	183	140	0.341	0.006	0.592817625	0.0107	0.59281763
Sepia
S. zanzibarica	125	250	0.322	0.11	0.02693217	4.07948	0.02693217
S. tuberculata	–	–	0.472	–	0.195675073	–	0.19567507
S. probahari	100	130	0.329	0.014	0.339751092	0.04241	0.33975109
S. bandensis	50	70	0.443	0.01	0.378875429	0.02641	0.37887543
S. pharaonis	130	420	0.331	–	0.39541982	–	0.39541982
S. ramani	100	375	0.281	0.012	0.428986858	0.02855	0.42898686
S. papuensis	155	110	0.32	0.007	0.447618688	0.01549	0.44761869
S. hierredda	100	500	0.309	0.009	0.458652092	0.01995	0.45865209
S. plangon	83	135	0.285	0.011	0.487355363	0.02283	0.48735536
S. vermiculata	290	287	0.386	0.006	0.498728265	0.01255	0.49872826
S. grahami	84	82	0.451	0.005	0.545447934	0.00935	0.54544793
S. simonniana	–	–	0.374	0.001	0.558504808	0.00116	0.55850481
S. elobyana	–	53	0.365	0.006	0.569278109	0.01007	0.56927811
S. elliptica	142	175	0.381	0.005	0.586393149	0.00839	0.58639315
S. latimanus	30	500	0.275	0.005	0.612875219	0.00803	0.61287522
S. officinalis verm	–	–	0.331	0.001	0.641126918	0.00172	0.64112692
S. officinalis	200	490	0.294	0.005	0.641608779	0.00803	0.64160878
S. apama	100	500	0.431	0.006	0.669212788	0.00928	0.66921279
S. bandensis
Rhombosepia
S. elegans	500	72	0.268	0.01	0.241716749	0.04213	0.24171675
S. hierornis	–	–	0.392	–	0.278139121	–	0.27813912
S. orbignyana	570	120	0.259	0.01	0.278682579	0.0351	0.27868258
S. madokai	200	100	0.329	0.008	0.372213483	0.02098	0.37221348
S. sulcata	404	97	0.289	0.007	0.399168231	0.01776	0.39916823
S. hedleyi	1100	83	0.378	0.007	0.49543419	0.01373	0.49543419
Anomalosepia
S. australis	345	85	0.29	0.018	0.134320913	0.13458	0.13432091
S. omani	210	100	0.264	0.005	0.445989493	0.01115	0.44598949
Doratosepia
S. trygonina	410	140	0.195	0.011	0.210641424	0.05409	0.21064142
S. bertheloti	156	175	0.248	–	0.23076413	–	0.23076413
S. kobiense	200	90	0.201	0.011	0.235882452	0.04847	0.23588245
S. prashadi	200	140	0.261	0.008	0.350295697	0.0236	0.3502957
S. vossi	140	100	0.292	0.008	0.358668649	0.02334	0.35866865
S. opipara	184	150	0.295	0.008	0.384575282	0.02137	0.38457528
S. braggi	86	80	0.202	0.007	0.396286439	0.01703	0.39628644
S. vietrnamica	104	70	0.226	0.006	0.464228268	0.01363	0.46422827
S. lorigera	300	250	0.21	0.006	0.467224547	0.01268	0.46722455
S. arabica	272	88	0.156	0.006	0.566749124	0.01116	0.56674912
S. andreana	50	120	0.222	0.007	0.578033004	0.01291	0.578033
S. longipes	300	250	0.23	0.007	0.619835128	0.01057	0.61983513
Sepiella
S. japonica	50		0.294	0.009	0.411410711	0.02108	0.41141071

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