Soliclymenia
Appearance
Soliclymenia Temporal range: Late Devonian
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Clymeniida |
Family: | †Glatziellidae |
Genus: | †Soliclymenia Schindewolf, 1937 |
Soliclymenia is a genus of ammonites from the Late Devonian. S. paradoxa has an unusual, triangularly-coiled shell. Additional genera of ammonites with triangular shells are Kamptoclymenia, Trigonoshumardites, and Trigonogastrioceras. Soliclymenia semiparadoxa, which is known only from the holotype, is semi-triangular, the innermost whorls being circular. Other species of this genus, including S. solarioides and S. recticostata, have a circularly-coiled shell.
References
[edit]- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
- Korn, D., Niedźwiedzki, R., & Posieczek, J. B. (2005). Age, distribution, and phylogeny of the peculiar Late Devonian ammonoid Soliclymenia. Acta Geologica Polonica, 55(2), 99-108.
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