Dombarigloria is a genus belonging to the goniatitid family Cravenoceratidae; extinct ammonoids which are shelled cephalopods more closely related to squid, octopus and other coleoids than to the superficially similar Nautilus
| Dombarigloria | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Goniatitida |
| Family: | †Cravenoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Cravenoceratinae |
| Genus: | †Dombarigloria Ruzhentzev & Bogoslovskaya, 1971 |
Dombarigloria (Saunders et al. 1999) one of the three earliest genera in the Cravenoceratidae, appearing in the middle Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian). Dombarigloria is derived from the cravenoceratid Pachylyroceras.
References
edit- Saunders et al. 1999; Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material; Science Mag.
- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07
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