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Soliclymenia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Clymeniida

Family
  
†Glatziellidae

Rank
  
Genus

Subclass
  
Ammonites

Similar
  
Ammonites, Clymenia laevigata, Clymeniida, Clymenia, Cymaclymenia

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 Kamptoclymenia, Trigonoshumardites, and Trigonogastrioceras. 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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Soliclymenia Wikipedia