Donetzoceras

Donetzoceras is a genus belonging to the goniatitid family Gonioglyphioceratidae ; extinct ammonoids which are shelled cephalopods more closely related to squid, octopus and other coleoids than to the superficially similar Nautilus

Donetzoceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Family: †Gonioglyphioceratidae
Genus: †Donetzoceras
Librovitch 1946

Donetzoceras has a relatively small, thick-discoidal shell, the inner whorls evolute, later stages involute. Sculpture consists of nodelike riblets and umbilical plications which disappear at maturity. Growth lines form shallow ventral sinus and ventrolateral salients. The ventral lobe pointed with a median saddle about half as high as entire ventral lobe itself.

Donetzoceras is the earliest genus now included in the Gonioglyphioceratidae. Donetzoceras is from the middle and upper Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

References
  • Goniat:
  • Saunders et al. 1999; Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material; Science Mag.
  • The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07


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