Kingdom Animalia Class Cephalopoda Order Ellesmerocerida Rank Genus | Phylum Mollusca Subclass Nautiloidea Family Ellesmeroceratidae | |
Similar Endoceras, Cameroceras, Nautiloid | ||
Cyptendoceras is an extinct nautiloid cephalopod included in the family Ellesmeroceratidae that lived in what would be North and South America during the latter part of the Early Ordovician (late Arenig) from about 475 - 472 mya, existing for approximately 3 million years.
Taxonomy
Cyptendoceras was named by Ulrich and Foerste (1936). Teichert (1964, in the Treatise, included it in the endocerid family Proterocameroceratidae. Flower (1964) in Memoir 12 assigned it to the Baltoceratidae, at that time included in the Ellesmeroceratida. Kroger et al. (2007) reassigned it to the Ellesmeroceratidae on the basis of the ellesmeroceratid type siphuncle, removing it from the Baltoceratidae which had been reassigned to the Orthocerida.
References
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