Published December 20, 2021 | Version v1
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Cyptendoceras Ulrich & Foerste 1936

  • 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 Cyptendoceras Ulrich & Foerste, 1936 Type species

Cyptendoceras ruedemanni Ulrich & Foerste, 1936; from Fort Cassin Formation, Floian Stage, from near Fort Cassin, Vermont, USA; by original designation.

Diagnosis

Straight, slender, depressed conchs with short camerae; sutures with ventral lobe, in some forms also dorsal lobe; siphuncle ventral with tubular or faintly concave segments; short septal necks; endosiphuncular rod; cameral deposits adjacent to siphuncle are present (adopted from Flower 1964).

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 44, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.783.1601, http://zenodo.org/record/5793422

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cyptendoceratidae
Genus
Cyptendoceras
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tetrabranchia
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Ulrich & Foerste
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cyptendoceras Ulrich, 1936 sec. Kröger & Pohle, 2021

References

  • Flower R. H. 1964. The nautiloid order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12: 1 - 164.