Lobendoceras

Lobendoceras is a proterocameraceratid with a rather large, moderately expanded, straight shell with a large marginal siphuncle in which sutures have a broad, deep, ventral lobe and septal necks are subholochoanitic to holochoanitic.

Lobendoceras
Temporal range: L Ordovician
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Nautiloidea
Order:
Endocerida
Family:
Proterocameroceratidae
Genus:
Lobendoceras

Teichert and Glenister, 1954

Lobendoceras has been found in Lower Ordovician marine strata in NW Australia and Siberia.

See also
  • List of nautiloids

References
  • Curt Teichert, 1964. Endoceratoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geol Soc. of America and Univ of Kansas press. Teichert and Moore (eds)
  • Teichert and Glenister 1954 . Early Ordovician cephalopod fauna from northwestern Australia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 35 (150): 7–112.
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