Cycloceras
Temporal range: Ordovician-Permian
Cranoceras depressum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: †Orthocerida
Genus: †Cycloceras
M'Coy, 1844

Cycloceras is an extinct nautiloid cephalopod genus from the Carboniferous of Western Europe, (Ireland and Scotland) of unknown affinity with the Orthocerida.[1]

Taxonomy

Cycloceras was named by McCoy (1844 and assigned to the Michelinoceratida by Flower (1962)and to the Orthocerida by Sweet in Teichert et al. (1964);[2] Cycloceras is possibly a member of the Cycloceratidae and may be synonymous with Perigrammoceras.

Morphology

The type species of Cycloceras, C. annularis, is based in an internal mold of a body chamber on which the position of the siphuncle is indiscernible (Sweet 1964,) Species referred to Cycloceras are annulated, subcylindrical orthocones with no longitudinal ornamentation . Fig 186, p K258 Teichert et al. (1964) shows Cycloceras as narrow, gently expanding, annulated orthocone with a narrow subcentral siphuncle. Annuli (circular transverse bands or costae) are thick and close spaced, giving a corrugated appearance.

References

  1. ↑ C. Teichert et al 1964. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology K(3)Nautiloidea:1-519
  2. ↑ PaleoBiology Database:Cycloceras,basic info


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