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Lambeoceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Subclass:  
Actinoceratoidea
    Order:  
Actinocerida
    Family:  
Gonioceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Lambeoceras FOERSTE, 1917
    Type Species:  
Gonioceras lambii WHITEAVES, 1891; OD (=G. lambei of later authors)


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Fig. 148,2a. •L. lambii (WHITEAVES), M. (or IV.) Ord., Can. (Man.); dorsal view of conch, X0.1 (118). -- FIG. 148,2b-e. L. princeps TROEDSSON, M.(or IV) Ord., N.Green!.; 2b, ventral view of conch, XO.l8; 2c, transv. sec., XO.3; 2d, siphuncle, dorsoventral sec., X1; 2e, detail of septal neck (s, septum; k, brim; sr, circulus; sh, connecting ring; p, perispatium; pa, perispatial deposit), X8 (2b,c, 194; 2d,e, 236)


Synonyms

Hoeloceras


Geographic Distribution

N.Am.Green!. - NE. Eu. - Sib.


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

Large to . very large shells, both flat sides evenly and gently convex; sutures with broad sinus across ventral and dorsal sides and acute lateral saddles. Siphuncle subventral ; segments either like Gonioceras or with more prolonged constricted part where septa bend backward behind septal foramen; brims strongly recurved, pointing forward and outward; endosiphuncular canal system simple, known from all species except type-species. [Genus originally proposed as subgenus of Tripteroceras HYATT, 1884.]




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