Uranoceratidae

Uranoceratidae
Temporal range: ?Late Ord - Mid Sil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Tarphycerida
Suborder: Barrandeocerina
Family: Uranoceratidae
Hyatt in Zittel, 1900
Genera

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The Uranoceratidae is a family of Silurian barrandeoceroids that tend to become uncoiled with age and in which siphuncle segments tend to be expanded into the camerae.[1]

  1. ^ Flower, R.H. & Kummel, B. 1950. A Classification of the Nautiloidea. Journal of Paleontology vol 24, no.5, pp604–616, Sept 1950.