The cephalopods of the Boda Limestone, Late Ordovician, of Dalarna, Sweden
Author
Kröger, Björn
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2013
2013-03-27
41
1
110
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.41
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Genus
Beloitoceras
Foerste, 1924
Type
species
Oncoceras pandion
Hall, 1861
, Black River Formation, Beloit,
Wisconsin
,
USA
; by original designation.
Diagnosis
Strongly curved, relatively slender brevicones with ovate, compressed cross section. Conch smooth or with fine transverse ornament. Maximum conch diameter situated within adapical half to third of body chamber. Antisiphuncular outline of conch concave over entire length in longitudinal section, prosiphuncular outline broadly convex. Five to eight chambers per distance similar to corresponding conch cross section. Body chamber short with well developed hyponomic sinus at convex side. Siphuncle slender, situated close to convex margin of conch curvature, with subtubular segments. Septal necks short suborthochoanitic to cyrtochoanitic. Connecting rings thin. (Compiled from
Sweet 1964b
and
Frey 1995
.)