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Plectronoceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Subclass:  
Nautiloidea
    Order:  
Ellesmerocerida
    Family:  
Plectronoceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Plectronoceras ULRICH & FOERSTE, 1933, p. 288
    Type Species:  
Cyrtoceras cambria WALCOTT, 1905, p. 22; OD


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Fig. 81, la,b. -P. cambria (WALCOTT), Shantung Prov.; septal and lat. views, X5 (204). --FIG. 81, lc. P. liaotungense KOBAYASHI, Manchuria; sec., X 10 (after 223b).


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Geographic Distribution

China (Shantung Prov.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cam.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Guzhangian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
50
    Beginning Date:  
498.75
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Cam.
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 10
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
486.85


Description

Compressed, fairly rapidly expanded endogastric cyrtocones; sutures with shallow lateral lobe; siphuncle about 0.2 of conch diameter, segments expanded; septal necks variable, from orthochoanitic to hemichoanitic or cyrtochoanitic; connecting rings inadequately known but probably thick, and adnate distally.




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