Biology:Hipparionoceras

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Hipparionoceras
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Oncocerida
Family: Polyelasmoceratidae
Genus: Hipparionoceras
Flower, 1945

Hipparionoceras is a genus of oncocerids from the middle Devonian of Europe, North America, and China that lived around 395 million years ago.

The shell of Hipparionoceras is curved, rapidly expanding, flared toward the aperture. The curvature is endogastric with the ventral side somewhat concave in profile. The siphuncle is subventral, empty, with segments expanded into the short but broad chambers. Septa are close spaced, their curvature shallow.

Polyelasmoceras and Macrodomoceras are related genera, also from the Middle Devonian. Cadoceras from the Middle Silurian may be ancestral.

References

  • Walter C. Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea-Oncocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontilogy, Part K. Geological Society of America.
  • Hipparionoceras in Fossilworks Gateway

Wikidata ☰ Q22286664 entry