Family

Diestoceratidae Foerste, 1926

Selection of related publications

Kröger, B. 2025. The Lyckholm acme of cephalopods – Review of the late Katian (Vormsi–Pirgu regional stages) Ordovician cephalopods of Estonia. European Journal of Taxonomy 978, 1-168. DOI:10.5852/ejt.2025.978.2801

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

Kröger, B., Ebbestad, J. O. R., Högström, A. E. S., Frisk, Ǻ. 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

Frye, M. W. 1987. Upper Ordovician (Harjuan) oncoceratid nautiloids from the Boda Limestone, Siljan District, Sweden. GFF 109, 1, 83-99. DOI:10.1080/11035898709454748

Balashov, E. A. 1959. Nekotorye novye vidy nautiloidej ordovika, silura i devona SSSR. Materialy k "Osnovam paleontologii", Bypusk 3, pp. 37-46. Paleontologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk SSSR.

Teichert, C. 1930. Die Cephalopoden-Fauna der Lyckholm-Stufe des Ostbaltikums. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 12, 3/4, 264-312. DOI:10.1007/BF03044452

List of species

1. Danoceras breve Strand, 1934 | Lower Ordovician→Ordovician

2. Danoceras broeggeri Strand, 1934 | Katian

3. Danoceras fusiforme Balashov, 1959 | Rakvere Stage

4. Danoceras oviforme Kröger, 2025 | Vormsi Stage→Pirgu Stage

5. Danoceras piersalense (Teichert, 1930) | Nabala Stage→Pirgu Stage

6. Danoceras scandinavicum Strand, 1934 | Katian→Hirnantian

7. Danoceras skalbergensis Kröger et Aubrechtová, 2019 | Sandbian→Katian

8. Danoceras vohilaidense Kröger, 2025 | Pirgu Stage

9. Diestoceras acuminatum Strand, 1934 | Ordovician

10. Diestoceras isotelorum Strand, 1934 | Ordovician

11. Diestoceras parallelum Frye, 1987 | Katian

12. Diestoceras stensioei (Troedsson, 1926)

13. Diestoceras stormeri Strand, 1934 | Ordovician

14. Dowlingoceras kallholnense Frye, 1987 | Katian

15. Dowlingoceras tornense Kröger, 2025 | Pirgu Stage

16. Lyckholmoceras constrictum Strand, 1934 | Ordovician

17. Lyckholmoceras estoniae Teichert, 1930 | Katian

18. Lyckholmoceras norvegiae Strand, 1934 | Ordovician

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Cephalopoda
Subclass	Multiceratia
Order	Oncocerida
Suborder	Polyelasmoceratidae
Family	Acleistoceratidae
	Diestoceratidae
Genus	Danoceras
	Diestoceras
	Dowlingoceras
	Lyckholmoceras
Family	Graciloceratidae
	Hemiphragmoceratidae
	Jovellaniidae
	Karoceratidae
	Oncoceratidae
	Phtanoncoceratidae
	Trimeroceratidae
	Valcouroceratidae