Endolobus

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Endolobus
Temporal range: Upper Mississippian - Lower Permian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Nautilida
Family: Koninckioceratidae
Genus: Endolobus
Meek & Worthen, 1865

Endolobus is an extinct genus from the nautiloid order, Nautilida. Nautiloids are a subclass of shelled cephalopods that were once diverse and numerous but are now represented by only a handful of species, including Nautilus . Endolubus is included in the family Koninckioceratidae which is part of the superfamily Tainoceratoidea (Kümmel, 1964. K424).

The shell of Endolobus is an evolute spiral with whorl sections subelliptical; broadly rounded ventrally, narrowly rounded laterally, and slightly impressed dorsally (Kümmel, 1964. K424). There are low nodes on the flanks and the suture is slightly sinuous but with a prominent dorsal lobe. The siphuncle is small, subcentral, and orthochoanitic.

Endolobus has a range from the Lower Carboniferous (U Miss) to the Lower Permian and has been found in different locations in North America and eastern Europe.

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