Tornoceras
Tornoceras is a strongly involute, subdiscoidal Middle and Upper Devonian goniatite with a suture that forms six to ten lobes.[1]
| Tornoceras Temporal range: Middle Devonian - late Devonian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Goniatitida |
| Family: | †Tornoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Tornoceratinae |
| Genus: | †Tornoceras Hyatt, 1884 |
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Aulatornoceras, Protornoceras, Epitornoceras, Lobotornoceras are among related genera included in the Tornoceratidae. Inclusion however varies from classification to classification.[1][2][3]
References
- Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
- Goniat- Tornoceratidae
- The Paleobiology Database Tornoceratidae
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