Slemmestadoceras Kröger 2008 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Orthoceratoidea

Full reference: B. Kröger. 2008. A new genus of middle Tremadocian orthoceratoids and the Early Ordovician origin of orthoceratoid cephalopods. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(4):745-749

Parent taxon: Orthoceratoidea according to B. Kröger 2008

Sister taxa: Actinocerida, Dissidocerida, Lituitida, Offleyoceratidae, Orthocerida, Paraphragmitidae, Protobactritidae, Riocerida, Orthoceras nodosum, Orthoceras mojsisovicsi, Orthoceras lateseptatum, Orthoceras variestriatum, Orthoceras styriacum, Orthoceras spitiense, Orthoceras subellipticum, Pseudorthocerida, Orthoceras increscens, Orthoceras sandlingense, Orthoceras blakei, Orthoceras billiemense, Orthoceras baconicum, Orthoceras pulchristriatum, Orthoceras triadicum, Orthoceras acum, Orthoceras shastense, Orthoceras multilabiatum, Orthoceras indoaustralicum, Orthoceras subtiliseptatum, Orthoceras austriacum, Orthoceras lennaense, Orthoceras pulchellum, Orthoceras celticum, Orthoceras rotundulum

Subtaxa: Slemmestadoceras attavus

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Norway (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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