Soliclymenia

Soliclymenia
Temporal range: Late Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Subclass:†Ammonoidea
Order:†Clymeniida
Family:†Glatziellidae
Genus:†Soliclymenia
Schindewolf, 1937

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.

References

    • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
    • Korn et al. 2005 Acta Geologica Polonica 55:99-108.


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