Genus

Palaeodawsonocerina Kröger et Isakar, 2006

Taxon description

Kröger & Isakar, 2006

Diagnosis. Straight or slightly cyrtoconic, circular or subcir-cular shell, with prominent, narrowly spaced annulations, growth lines, and numerous subordinate filiform longitudinally raised lines, producing a fine reticulate pattern. Siphuncle central or slightly eccentric, slightly expanded, with achoanitic to very short orthochoanitic septal necks. Apex blunt, slightly cyrtoconic, annulated.

Selection of related publications
Kröger, B. 2013. The cephalopods of the Boda Limestone, Late Ordovician, of Dalarna, Sweden. European Journal of Taxonomy 41, 41, 1-110. DOI:10.5852/ejt.2013.41
Kröger, B., Isakar, M. 2006. Revision of annulated orthoceridan cephalopods of the Baltoscandic Ordovician. Fossil Record 9, 1, 137-163. DOI:10.1002/mmng.200600005
Teichert, C. 1930. Die Cephalopoden-Fauna der Lyckholm-Stufe des Ostbaltikums. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 12, 3/4, 264-312. DOI:10.1007/BF03044452
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Classification
Organism groupBiota
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassCephalopoda
SubclassOrthoceratia
OrderOrthocerida
SuborderOrthoceratina
FamilyDawsonoceratidae
GenusDawsonoceras
Palaeodawsonocerina
Speciesnicolletoides
senckenbergi