Soliclymenia
| Soliclymenia Temporal range:
Late Devonian | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Clymeniida |
| Family: | †Glatziellidae |
| Genus: | †Soliclymenia Schindewolf, 1937 |
Soliclymenia is a
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. [1]
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