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. 2019. The cephalopods of the Kullsberg Limestone Formation, Upper Ordovician, central Sweden and the effects of reef diversification on cephalopod diversity. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17, 12, 961-995. DOI:10.1080/14772019.2018.1491899
Pohle, A., Klug, C., Toom, U., Kröger, B. 2019. Conch structures, soft-tissue imprints and taphonomy of the Middle Ordovician cephalopod Tragoceras falcatum from Estonia. Fossil Imprint 75, 1, 70-78. DOI:10.2478/if-2019-0006
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
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