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Allumettoceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Subclass:  
Nautiloidea
    Order:  
Oncocerida
    Family:  
Tripteroceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Allumettoceras FOERSTE, 1926, p. 311
    Type Species:  
Tripteroceras pauquettense FOERSTE, 1924, p. 233, OD


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Fig. 205, 2. *A. pauquettense (Foerste), M.Ord., Can. (Ont.), 2a, b, septum (venter down), ventral, x1 (53).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

N.Am.-Eu. (Est.-Norway)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Dapingian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
471.26
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Ord.
    Ending International Stage:  
Hirnantian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
443.07


Description

Orthocones or faintly exogastric cyrtocones with flattened venter, broadly arched dorsum, narrowly rounded sides. Early siphuncle suborthochoanitic, later stages cyrtochoanitic, with subspherical, empty segments




References

Foerste, A. F., 1926, Actinosiphonate, trochoceroid and other cephalopods: Denison Univ. Bull., Jour. Sci. Lab., v. 21, p. 285-383, pl. 22-53.


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