Diestoceratidae

Diestoceratidae is a family in the nautiloid cephalopod order Oncocerida with compressed, straight to faintly endogastic breviconic shells with a marginal siphuncle that contains discrete, irregular actinosphonate deposits.

Diestoceratidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Oncocerida
Family: Diestoceratidae
Foeste, 1926
Genera

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The Diestoceratidae contains five known genera. They are:

  • Diestoceras
  • Danoceras
  • Dowlingoceras
  • Lyckholmoceras
  • Suttonoceras

References

    • Diestoceratidae -Paleobio db
    • Sweet, Walter C. 1964. Nautiloidea -Oncocera. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Soc. of America & Univ Kansas Press.
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