Biology:Polyelasmoceratidae

Short description: Extinct family of nautiloids

Polyelasmoceratidae Temporal range: Middle Silurian- Middle Devonian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	†Oncocerida
Family:	†Polyelasmoceratidae Shimanskiy, 1956
Genera
Codoceras Coelocyrtoceras Cyrtocheilus Danaoceras Evlanoceras Hipparionoceras Macrodomoceras Polyelasmoceras Turoceras Wadeoceras

Polyelasmoceratidae is a family of oncocerid nautiloids characterized by rapidly expanding endogastrically curved shells, curved such that the ventral side is longitudinally concave. In cross section shells are typically tear-drop in shape to subtriangular. The siphuncle is typically nummuloidal, like a string of beads, with outwardly flared septal necks, and located between the center and the venter. Most contain radially lamellar actinosiphonate deposits.

The Middle Silurian Danaoceras is probably the ancestral genus, which give rise to the contemporary Codoceras and ultimately the subsequent Devonian genera.

References

• Walter C. Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea - Oncocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.

Wikidata ☰ Q19760186 entry