Adelphoceras
| Adelphoceras Temporal range: mid Devonian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
| Order: | Nautilida |
| Family: | †Rutoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Adelphoceras Barrande, 1870 |
Adelphoceras is a genus of middle Devonian coiled nautiloids from Europe with an oval whorl section and shallow depressed zone on the inner, dorsal, rim; a strongly contracted T-shaped aperture; ventral siphuncle containing actinosiphonate deposits, and two rows of spines on either side.
Adelphoceras is included in the nautilid family Rutoceratidae, and is also a part of the Tainoceratoidea.
References
[edit]- Bernhard Kummel, 1964. Nautiloidea - Nautilida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
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