Dieneria

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Dieneria
Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Dieneria

Hyatt & Smith, 1905

Dieneria is a genus of ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods from the Late Triassic of western North America with a smooth discoidal shall of which the venter is truncate and the suture simple. Only the first lateral lobe is slightly serrated, the other lobes entire (smooth)

Dieneria, named by Hyatt and Smith, 1905, was first found in the

Pinacocerataceae

References

  • Arkell, et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise in Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (L157). Geological Society of America.
  • Dieneria entry in the Paleobiology Database [1]