Nautili

She married him and moved to his residence on the island of Sicily, where she was able to do her science, design her aquariums and discover her paper nautili. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among molluscs, the Ammonites, related to the modern Pearly Nautilus, are an example of a race very numerous and varied during all the periods of the Reptilian Era, but disappearing at its close, leaving only a few collateral descendants in the squids, cuttlefish and nautili of the modern seas. ❋ William Diller Matthew (1900)

English philosopher Robert Hooke, in a discourse on earthquakes, written in 1688, but published posthumously in 1705, was aware that the fossil ammonites, nautili, and many other shells and fossil skeletons found in ❋ Unknown (1872)

Shortly after, when the calm evening was dressed in all the gorgeous colours of a southern sunset, and whilst the military calls were sounding those stirring notes he loved to hear, my good horse was lowered to his rest among the nautili and wondrous seaflowers which floated round the ship. ❋ Unknown (1856)

The shell is very different from those of the other nautili in being much more deeply indented with circular striae. ❋ George Grey (1855)

It swims about amongst the purple barnacles and pink nautili, seeking on the shores of these shining islands its prey, the curious formation of its mouth being admirably adapted to enable it, whilst swimming under these painted floating islands, to crop off what it lists. ❋ George Grey (1855)

First, however, we pulled out some way, and laid down our fish-pots at a spot where Ali seemed to think it was possible we might capture one of the much-wished-for nautili. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The most curious were the beautiful paper-nautili, which swim with their long arms extended in ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

He has been able to classify many of these creatures, some of them being allied to the nautili, nummuli, cyprides, &c. The shells of some are calcareous, of others siliceous. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)

As for the "spiral petrifactions termed _cornu ammonis_," of which the Jurassic Alps are full, they were not nautili, he said; they could be nothing else than reptiles; seeing that reptiles take almost always the form of a spiral when not in motion; and it was surely more likely, that when petrified they should still retain the spiral disposition, than that "the Indian Ocean should have long ago overflowed the mountains of Europe." ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

The mollusca of the Silurians ranged from the high cephalopoda, represented in our existing seas by the nautili and the cuttle-fishes, to the low brachipods, some of whose congeners may still be detected in the terebratula of our Highland lochs and bays, and some in the lingulæ of the southern hemisphere. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

The varieties of the nautili have the same property of floating on the surface of the water, but they seldom are found many miles from land. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

In the chalk-pit, at the north-west end of the Hanger, large nautili are sometimes observed. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

This cave is a dangerous place for a well-inflated puffer fish, and you must help Pudge avoid all manner of obstacles such as stalactites, stalagmites, jellyfish, nautili and cuttlefish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's not just the web, though -- I've been reading about nautili as Fibonacci examples for decades in books and magazines. ❋ Unknown (2008)