Soliclymenia

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Soliclymenia
Temporal range: Late Devonian
Scientific classification e
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.

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  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
  • Korn et al. 2005 Acta Geologica Polonica 55:99-108. [1]

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