Soliclymenia
Soliclymenia Temporal range: Late Devonian
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Clymeniida |
Family: | † |
Genus: | †Soliclymenia Schindewolf, 1937 |
Soliclymenia is a genus of ammonites from the Late Devonian. S. paradoxa has an unusual, triangularly-coiled shell. Additional genera of ammonites with triangular shells are , , and . Soliclymenia semiparadoxa, which is known only from the holotype, is semi-triangular, the innermost whorls being circular. Other species of this genus, including S. solarioides and S. recticostata, have a circularly-coiled shell.
References[]
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
- Korn et al. 2005 Acta Geologica Polonica 55:99-108. [1]
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Categories:
- Ammonite genera
- Clymeniina
- Devonian ammonites
- Late Devonian ammonites
- Fossils of Poland
- Ammonite stubs