Published December 20, 2021 | Version v1
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Nyfrieslandoceras Kröger & Pohle 2021, gen. nov.

  • 1. Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, PO Box 44, FI- 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
  • 2. Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Description

Genus Nyfrieslandoceras gen. nov.

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Type species

Nyfrieslandoceras bassleroceroides gen. et sp. nov.

Diagnosis

Slightly curved slender conch with compressed conch cross section; ornamented with distinct irregularly spaced growth lines, which form hyponomic sinus at convex side of conch curvature; chambers are narrowly spaced, ca nine per distance similar to corresponding conch height; sutures form broad lateral lobe; siphuncle thin and nearly marginal at convex side of conch curvature, with slightly expanded segments; septal necks short, thickened achoanitic.

Notes

Published as part of Kröger, Björn & Pohle, Alexander, 2021, Early-Middle Ordovician cephalopods from Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen - a pelagic fauna with Laurentian affinities, pp. 1-102 in European Journal of Taxonomy 783 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.783.1601, http://zenodo.org/record/5793422

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Rioceratidae
Genus
Nyfrieslandoceras
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tetrabranchia
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Kröger & Pohle
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Nyfrieslandoceras Kröger & Pohle, 2021