Quasicravenoceras
Quasicravenoceras Temporal range: Carboniferous | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Order: | Goniatitida |
Suborder: | Goniatitina |
Family: | Cravenoceratidae |
Genus: | Quasicravenoceras Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971 |
Quasicravenoceras is a genus in the goniatitid family Cravenoceratidae from the Carboniferous of Russia and Kazakhstan, included in the Neoglyphiocerataceae. The type species is Quasicravenoceras consuetum Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya, 1971.
Diagnosis
Quasicravenoveras is characterized by a moderately large, variably involute, subdiscoidal shell, or conch. The surface is covered with sharp lamella that can appear as narrow ribs. The sides of the ventral lobe are divergent, separated by a short median saddle
Related genera include Cravenoceras, Cravenoceratoides, Emstites, and 'Gorboviceras.
References
- Quasicravenoceras in in Gonait on Line
- Quasicravenoceras in Fossilworks
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