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Dombarigloria

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Dombarigloria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Cravenoceratidae
Subfamily: Cravenoceratinae
Genus: Dombarigloria
Ruzhentzev & Bogoslovskaya, 1971

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 (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

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  • Saunders et al. 1999; Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material; Science Mag.
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  • The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07