Huronia (cephalopod)

Huronia
Temporal range: UpperOrdovician -Silurian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Actinocerida
Family: Huroniidae
Genus: Huronia
Stokes (1824) [1][2]

Huronia is an actinocerid genus included in the Huroniidae along with Discoactinoceras and Huroniella,(Teichert 1964). Huronia is characterized by long siphuncle segments with the free part of the connecting rings only slightly inflated and by a narrow central canal and strongly curved radial canals located in the anterior part of each siphuncle segment

  1. ^ Woodward, S. P. (1851). A Manual of the Mollusca; or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells. Vol. 1. p. 16. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  2. ^ Stokes, Charles (1824). "(Title of paper unknown)". Trans. Geol. Soc. 2. i: 203. Retrieved 28 May 2018.