Published December 20, 2021 | Version v1
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Catoraphiceras 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 Catoraphiceras Ulrich & Foerste, 1936 Type species

Catoraphiceras lobatum Ulrich & Foerste, 1936; probably from the Powell horizon (late Floian–early Dapingian Stage), Wells Creek basin, northeast of Erin, Tennessee, USA; by original designation.

Diagnosis

Annulated orthocones whose sutures form ventral lobes; cross section is depressed to circular; siphuncles are moderately large (rSD = 0.25–0.35) and somewhat removed from the venter; septal necks are short; connecting rings are thin; some species develop ventral rods and cameral deposits (adopted from Hook & Flower 1977).

Remarks

The genus was previously placed within the Protocycloceratidae.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

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

References

  • Hook S. C. & Flower R. H. 1977. Late Canadian (Zones J, K) cephalopod faunas from southwestern United States. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 32: 1 - 102.