Karagandoceras

Karagandoceras is an ammonoid genus belonging to the goniatid family Karagandoceratidae that lived during the early Mississippian (lower Carboniferous).

Karagandoceras
Temporal range: L Mississippian
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Karagandoceras

Librovitch, 1940

Karagandoceras has an involute, lenticular shell, with an acute ventral margin. The ventral lobe of the suture is wide with subparallel to divergent sides, divided by a median saddle with a relatively wide median lobe.

Karagandoceratids, which include Karagandoceras and Mesonoceras are a rare offshoot of the Prionorceratinae that differ from their parent group by possession of an acute ventral margin and an increasingly trifid ventral lobe.

References

    • Paleobiology database-Karagandoceras 8/22/10
    • Goniat online 8/22/10
    • Masonoceras, a new Karaganoceratid Ammonoid from the Lower Mississippian (Lower Osagean) of Kentucky, by David M Work and Walter L Manger. Jour Paleo May 2002; v.76; no. 3; pp 574–577

    Karagandocerataceae


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