Paleocadmus
| Paleocadmus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Nautiloidea (?) |
| Genus: | †Paleocadmus Solen & Richardson, 1975 |
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Paleocadmus is a genus of radula known only from the Mazon Creek biota. It is only known from isolated fossils around a centimetre in length, and a few mm wide (in one instance associated with a possible beak), but its morphology aligns it with the nautiloids, or perhaps the bactritoids or belemnoids.[1]
References
- ↑ Saunders, W. B.; Richardson, E. S. (1979). "Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesean) Cephalopoda of the Mazon Creek fauna, northeastern Illinois". In Nitecki, M. H. Mazon Creek fossils. pp. 333–359.
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