Cheiloceras

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Cheiloceras
Temporal range: Upper Devonian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Cheiloceratidae
Subfamily: Cheiloceratinae
Genus: Cheiloceras
Frech, 1897
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Cheiloceras is a subglobular to thickly lenticular goniatite with a closed umbilicus from the Upper Devonian and type genus for the Cheiloceratidae. [1] [2]

Cheiloceras is sometimes split into at least three subgenera. [2] Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) has evolute juvenile stages, the umbilicus closing later, while C. (Compactoceras) is subglobular with involute whorls in the early stage, later becoming compressed in form, and C. (Puncticeras) is involute in all stages. Eucheiloceras is another name for C. (Cheiloceras). [2]

Related genera in the Cheiloceratidae include Staffites and Dyscheiloceras . [3]

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References

  1. Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
  2. 1 2 3 GONIAT-Cheiloceras entry
  3. Paleobiology Database Cheiloceratidae entry