Lobendoceras
Genus of cephalopods
Lobendoceras Temporal range: L Ordovician | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
Order: | †Endocerida |
Family: | †Proterocameroceratidae |
Genus: | †Lobendoceras Teichert and Glenister, 1954 |
Lobendoceras is a proterocameraceratid with a rather large, moderately expanded, straight shell with a large marginal siphuncle in which sutures have a broad, deep, ventral lobe and septal necks are subholochoanitic to holochoanitic.
Lobendoceras has been found in Lower Ordovician marine strata in NW Australia and Siberia.
See also
- List of nautiloids
References
- Curt Teichert, 1964. Endoceratoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geol Soc. of America and Univ of Kansas press. Teichert and Moore (eds)
- Teichert and Glenister 1954 . Early Ordovician cephalopod fauna from northwestern Australia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 35 (150): 7–112.