Gundolficeras

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Gundolficeras is member of the Tornoceratidae, (goniatitid ammonites), from the Late Devonian named by Becker, 1995 and assigned to the Falcitornoceratinae. The type species is "Lobotornoceras" bicaniculatum.

Gundolficeras has a compressed or somewhat inflated shell that may have ventrolateral furrows and an open or closed umbilicus at medium stages. The suture has a small ventral lobe and on either side, a narrow, asymmetric, rounded or pointed adventitious lobe and a high saddle located mid-flank.

Gundolficeras differs from its partly contemporary, but slightly older relative Falcitornoceras in the details of the suture and in sometimes having an open umbilicus.

References

  • Gundolficeras in [http://www.goniat.org/index.html GONIAT Online] 6/9/12
  • [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=92889 Falcitornoceratinae] Paleobio Database. 6/9/12

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Category:Late Devonian ammonites

Category:Fossils of Morocco

Category:Ammonites of Africa

Category:Tornoceratidae

Category:Goniatitida genera

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