Biology:Nothoceratidae

Short description: Extinct family of molluscs

Nothoceratidae Temporal range: Silurian–Upper Devonian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	†Oncocerida
Family:	†Nothoceratidae Fischer, 1882

Nothoceratidae is a family of nautiloid cephalopods in the orthoceratoid order Oncocerida in which shells are exogastrically or endogastrically breviconic, planospiral, or torticonic; often with a constricted or visored aperture; and a siphuncle commonly composed of concave segments and occupied by actinosiphonate deposits. Some ten genera have been described which lived during the time between the Early Silurian and Late Devonian. The ancestral form is probably Perimecoceras which is known from the Upper Silurian of central Europe and which is similar in external form the Oonoceras from the Oncoceratidae.

Genera

• Blakeoceras
• Bolloceras
• Conostichoceras
• Cyrthoceratites
• Lorieroceras
• Metaphragmoceras
• Mutoblakeoceras
• Nothoceras
• Paraconradoceras
• Perimecoceras
• Tafilaltoceras
• Turnoceras

References

• Sweet, W. C. 1964; Nautiloidea -Oncocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K; Geological Society of America and University of Kansas press; Teichert and Moore (eds)

Wikidata ☰ Q7062932 entry