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Planitornoceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
†Goniatitida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
†Ammonoidea

Family
  
†Tornoceratidae

Planitornoceras is a genus included in the geniatitid subfamily Aulatornoceratinae that lived during the Famennian stage at the end of the Devonian. Its shell is extremely compressed, subinvolute to subevolute with an open umbilucus. Sides are always flat, outer rim (=venter) tabulate to slightly keeled. No constrictions or spiral grooves, but some species have broad spiral depressions. The adventitious lobe of the suture is widely rounded and asymmetric, the ventral lobe and saddle small, the dorsolateral saddle relatively short.

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Planitornoceras Wikipedia