Palaeocycloceras
| Palaeocycloceras Temporal range: Middle Ordovician | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
| Order: | Orthocerida |
| Family: | Orthoceratidae |
| Genus: | Palaeocycloceras Shimizu & Obata, 1934 |
Palaeocycloceras is a Middle Ordovician orthocerid genus from the Baltic region of Europe, China, and Brazil.
Taxonomy
Walter Sweet in 1964 assigned Palaeocycloceras to the orthocerid superfamily Orthocerataceae and to the subfamily Orthocerinae, noting that it is probably synonymous with Ctenoceras.
Morphology
The shell of Palaeocycloceras (=?Ctenoceras) is straight or faintly curved upwardly (exgastric) and somewhat compressed in cross section (slightly higher than wide). The surface has prominent sinuous annulations and growth lines. The siphuncle is small, subcentral or between the center and venter. Necks are short and straight, connecting rings thin and slightly expanded at the anterior ends of the segments. In some the siphuncle has an apparently continuous parietal lining. No cameral deposits are known.
References
- Walter C. Sweet, 1964. Nautilodea - Orthocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part K, Mollusca 3. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
- Paleobiology Database Paleocycloceras entry
- Paleobiology Database Ctenoceras entry