Geisonoceras Hyatt, 1884

Kröger, Björn, 2013, The cephalopods of the Boda Limestone, Late Ordovician, of Dalarna, Sweden, European Journal of Taxonomy 41, pp. 1-110 : 43-44

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.41

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3815174

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scientific name

Geisonoceras Hyatt, 1884
status

 

Genus Geisonoceras Hyatt, 1884

Type species

Orthoceras rivale Barrande, 1866 , Prague Basin, Czech Republic, Ludlovian, Silurian; by original designation.

Diagnosis

Slender longiconic orthocones or slightly cyrtoconic longicones with circular to subcircular cross section; ornamented with broad transverse bands between which are fine growth lines; transverse bands are slightly oblique forming shallow hyponomic sinus; sutures directly transverse or slightly

oblique; siphuncle subcentral; septal necks short orthochoanitic; connecting rings slightly expanding within chambers; weak annulosiphonate deposits concentrated at septal foramen in adapical siphuncular segments; camerae with episeptal and hyposeptal deposits. (Adopted from Sweet 1964c).

Sweet W. C. 1964 c. Orthocerida. In: R. C. Moore (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K, Mollusca 3. K 216 - K 261. University of Kansas Press, Boulder, Colorado.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Cephalopoda

Order

Orthocerida

SubOrder

Orthoceratina

Family

Geisonoceratidae