Olenecoceras

Not to be confused with Olenekoceras.

Olenecoceras Temporal range: Middle Cambrian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	incertae sedis
Genus:	† Olenecoceras Balashov, 1966
Species:	†O. rastorguense
Binomial name
†Olenecoceras rastorguense Balashov, 1966

Olenecoceras is a genus of Middle Cambrian ^[1] fossils that, once believed to be a cephalopod, has since been excluded from that group (although no alternative classification has been offered). ^[2] The genus was established by Zakhar Grigor'evich Balashov in 1966, from the river Olenyok. ^[3]

See also

• Vologdinella – another genus named by Balashov, also was formerly believed to be a cephalopod

References

1. Dzik, J. (1981). "Origin of the cephalopoda" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 26 (2): 161–191. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2013-07-22.
2. Teichert, C. (1985), "Main features of cephalopod evolution", in Wilbur, Karl M.; Clarke, M.R.; Trueman, E.R. (eds.), The Mollusca, vol. 12. Paleontology and neontology of Cephalopods, New York: Academic Press, ISBN   0-12-728702-7
3. Shamansky, V. N. (1968). Современное состояние изученности наутилоидей, эндоцератоидей, актиноцератоидей, бактритоидей [Modern state of study of Nautiloids, Endoceratoids, Actinoceratoides, Bactritoids](PDF). Итоги науки. Серия геология (in Russian). Moscow: VINITI: 160–180.