Carbactinoceras

Carbactinoceras Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	Pseudorthocerida
Family:	Carbactinoceratidae
Genus:	Carbactinoceras Schindewolf, 1935

Carbactinoceras is a genus of Early Carboniferas (Visean) actincoceroids first found in Europe (Germany) related to Rayonnoceras but probably smaller.

Description

Carbactinoceras shells are straight and generally unknown beyond the early growth stage. The siphuncle is large, central to subcentral; segments inflated, septal necks cyrochoantiic and recumbent. The endosiphuncular canal system observed is well developed with thin radial canals perpendicular to the central canal, and leading to a narrow seam along the connecting rings called a perispatium.

Taxonomic position

Although Carbactinoceras had been considered an actinocerid according to the American Teatise Part K, 1964, based on the internal characters of the siphuncle, the initial chambers of the phragmocone indicate that this genus is an actinoceroid homeomorph (lookalike) belonging phylogenetically to the Pseudorthocerida

References

• Bjorn Kroger 2007. Carboniferous Actinoceratoid Nautiloidea (Cephalopoda) - a new perspective) . Journal of Paleontology, July 2007
• Curt Teichert, 1964. Actinoceratoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
• Carbactinoceras Paleobiology Database
• J.J. Sepkoski 2002. List of Cephalopod genera. [1]