Foerstellites

Foerstellites is a genus of Ordovician cephalopods from North America, belonging to the family Endoceratidae, in which the siphuncle takes up the entire apex.

Foerstellites
Temporal range: Upper Ordovician
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Endocerida
Family: Endoceratidae
Genus: Foerstellites
Kobayashi, 1940

Foestellites, named by Kobayashi, 1940, is based on the apical part of the conch, or shell, which expands rapidly as septa are added. Not a true nanno type, since the siphuncle is not truly swollen at the apex. Probably the apical end of Cameroceras or Vaginoceras.

References

    • Flower, Rousseau H.1958. Some Chazyan and Mohawkian Endoceratida. Jour of Paleontology, V.32, n3, pp433–458, May 1958
    • Teichert, C. 1964. Endoceratoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, part K. Geological Society of America and Univ. Kansas Press.


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