Cephalopoda

Orthocerida Kuhn, 1940

Taxon description

Kröger & Isakar, 2006

Emended diagnosis. Straight or curved with smooth orelaborately ornamented shells, with central or subcentral nar-row siphuncle siphuncle that may be slightly expanded be-tween the chambers. Siphuncular necks achoanitic, subortho-choanitic or orthochoanitic. Apex spherical, bowl-shaped orblunt, invariably without cicatrix

Selection of related publications
Kröger, B., Aubrechtová, M. 2018. Cephalopods from reef limestone of the Vasalemma Formation, northern Estonia (latest Sandbian, Upper Ordovician) and the establishment of a local warm-water fauna. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16, 10, 799-839. DOI:10.1080/14772019.2017.1347212
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., Ebbestad, J.O.R., Högström, A.E.S., Frisk, A.M. 2011. Mass concentration of Hirnantian cephalopods from the Siljan District, Sweden; taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeographic relationships. Fossil Record 14, 1, 35-53. DOI:10.1002/mmng.201000014
Kröger, B. 2007. Concentrations of juvenile and small adult cephalopods in the Hirnantian cherts (Late Ordovician) of Porkuni, Estonia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52, 3, 591-608.
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
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