Danoceras Troedsson, 1926

Kröger, Björn, 2025, The Lyckholm acme of cephalopods - Review of the late Katian (Vormsi-Pirgu regional stages) Ordovician cephalopods of Estonia, European Journal of Taxonomy 978, pp. 1-169 : 59

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scientific name

Danoceras Troedsson, 1926
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Genus Danoceras Troedsson, 1926 View in CoL

Type species

Danoceras ravni Troedsson, 1926 , Cape Calhoun, northern Greenland, Cape Calhoun series, Late Ordovician; by original designation.

Diagnosis

Slender diestoceratids with straight or slightly curved shell, and compressed conch cross section with narrow venter and / or dorsum; mature body chamber with widest height and width near its base, with simple constriction close to mature aperture, with apertural widening and shallow hyponomic sinus; siphuncle positioned near conch margin, cyrtochoanitic; necks recumbent, segments elongate, subtrapezoidal in longitudinal section; thin annulosiphonate deposits with distinctive irregular linear processes, which extend adapically and adorally without fusing from segment to segment. (Compiled from Strand 1934, and Sweet 1964b.)

Strand T. 1934. The Upper Ordovician Cephalopods of the Oslo Area. Norsk geologiske Tidsskrift 14: 1-117.

Sweet W. C. 1964 b. Oncocerida. In: Moore R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K, Mollusca 3: K 277 - K 319. University of Kansas Press, Boulder, CO.

Troedsson G. T. 1926. On the Middle and Upper Ordovician faunas of northern Greenland. I. Cephalopods. Meddeleser on GrOnland 71: 1-157.