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Neptunoceratidae Shimansky 1957
Authors/Creators
- 1. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institut for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Description
Family Neptunoceratidae Shimansky, 1957
Diagnosis
Family of the superfamily Scyphoceratoidea with a slightly cyrtoconic conch. Whorl profile subtriangular. Sculpture with transverse ribs. Siphuncle between the centre and the convex side (after Shimansky 1962).
Included genera
Tetrapleuroceras Shimansky, 1949 (Gzhelian; 3 species).
Neptunoceras Shimansky, 1949 [synonym of Tetrapleuroceras Shimansky, 1949].
Texanoceras Niko & Mapes, 2011 (Gzhelian; 1 species).
Notes
Published as part of Korn, Dieter, 2025, A revised classification of the Carboniferous and Permian Nautilida, pp. 1-85 in European Journal of Taxonomy 1017 on page 78, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1017.3065, http://zenodo.org/record/17252405
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Shimansky
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Nautilida
- Family
- Neptunoceratidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neptunoceratidae Shimansky, 1957 sec. Korn, 2025
References
- Shimansky V. N. 1957. Sistematika i filogeniya otryada Nautilida. Byulleten' Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytatelei prirody. Otdel geologicheskiy 32: 105-120. [In Russian.]
- Shimansky V. N. 1962. Nadotryad Nautiloidea. Nautiloidei. Sistematicheskaya chast. Otryad Nautilida. In: Orlov Y. A. (ed.) Osnovy Paleontologii, Mollyuski - Golovonogie 1: 115-169. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Moskva. [In Russian.]
- Niko S. & Mapes R. H. 2011. Texanoceras, a new neptunoceratid cephalopod genus from the Upper Pennsylvanian Graham and Caddo Creek Formations in north-central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 85: 519-523. https://doi.org/10.1666/10-048.1