Gangshanoceras

Gangshanoceras is a fossil nautiloid cephalopod genus included in the orthocerid family Proteoceratidae. It has been found in Ordovician rocks dated from about 478.5 to 468 Ma in China, and from rocks dated slightly younger, about 468 to 461 Ma in Argentina. It has five described species. The type is Gangshanoceras jurongense. [2][3]

Gangshanoceras
Temporal range: Ordovician
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: †Orthocerida
Family: †Proteoceratidae
Genus: †Gangshanoceras
Zou, 1988
Type species
Gangshanoceras jurongense
Zou, 1988
Species
  • Gangshanoceras densum Zou, 1988
  • Gangshanoceras guichinense Ying, 1989
  • Gangshanoceras jurongense Zou, 1988
  • Gangshanoceras villicumense Kröger et al. 2007[1]
  • Gangshanoceras wennanense Ying, 1989

References
  1. Kröger, Björn; Beresi, Matilde S.; Landing, Ed (2007). "Early orthoceratoid cephalopods from the Argentine Precordillera (Lower-Middle Ordovician)". Journal of Paleontology. 81 (6): 1266–1283. doi:10.1666/06-013.1. S2CID 140621938.
  2. peters, shanan. "Sepkoski Online Results". strata.geology.wisc.edu. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  3. "Paleobiology Database: Gangshanoceras". Paleodb.org. Retrieved 18 August 2013.


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