Aulacocerida

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Aulacocerida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Superorder: †Belemnoidea
Order: †Aulacocerida
Stolley 1919

Aulacocerida is an order of primitive coleoid cephalopods, possibly derived from michelinoceraitids (Orthocerida) early in the Devonian, which in turn gave rise to the Belemnites.

Aulococerids are characterized by a straight, slim, conical shell with a large living chamber, simple aperture. The protoconch (initial, embryonic chamber) is egg-shaped and separated from the phragmocone by a constriction. The siphuncle is narrow and ventral, constricted at the septa and expanded in the middle of the chamber; necks are retrochoantiic[

Sepia and Spirula but differs from that of recent Nautilus
.

Opinions vary as to whether aulococerids were endocochleate,

ammonites
. Naef (in Bandel 1985) thought of aulacocerids as slender squids that looked similar to recent ones; morphologically similar to belemnites on one hand and to orthocerids on the other, but with a mantle that completely covered the shell; making them endocochliate. Jeletzky (in Bandel 1985) considered that aulocerids were essentially ectocochleate and that they lacked a muscular mantle, the rostrum having been secreted by mantle flaps that could be folded over the chambered shell, but were not fused around it, and which could be withdrawn into the long living chamber.

See also

  • List of belemnites

References

  1. S2CID 201208912
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  • Klaus Bandel, J. Reitner, and W. Sturmer, 1893. Coleoids from the Lower Devonian Black Slate (Hunstruck-Shiefer) of the Hunsruck (West Germany). N Jb Geol Paliont Abh 165(3) 397-414 Stuttgart, Apr 1983.
  • Klaus Bandel, 1985. Composition and ontogeny of Dictyoconites (Aulacocerida, Cephalopoda). Palaont Z 59(3/4),223-244. Stuttgart, Dec 1985.


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