Biology:Codoceras

Codoceras Temporal range: Middle Silurian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	†Oncocerida
Family:	†Polyelasmoceratidae
Genus:	†Codoceras Hyatt in Zittel, 1900

Codoceras is a genus of nautiloids belonging to the Polyelasmoceratidae, an Oncocerida family.

Codoceras, known from the Silurian of Europe, has a compressed, rapidly enlarging shell, curved endogastrically such that the presumed ventral side is concave and the opposite dorsal side is convex. The siphuncle is displaced from the center slightly toward the venter. Early segments are cylindrical. Later ones are nummuloidal and broader.

The type species is Cyrtoceras indominum Barrande 1866. Danaoceras is closely related and its most likely ancestor.

References

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

Wikidata ☰ Q20686241 entry