Texoceras

{{Short description|Extinct genus of molluscs}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Middle Permian}}

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| parent_authority = Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya, 1978

| taxon = Texoceras

| authority = Miller & Furnish, 1937

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Texoceras is an extinct ammonoid genus in the monotypic goniatitid subfamily Texoceratinae, included in the family Adrianitidae. These were shelled cephalopods more closely related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish than to nautiloids from which they are derived.

Texoceras, named and described by Miller & Furnish in 1937, has an involute subglobular shell, like Adrianites, with a narrow deep umbilicus in the middle, but with a reticulate surface and a suture that forms 14 rounded lobes.

References

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  • Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf 1957. Paleozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea; Geological Soc. of America and Univ of Kansas.press.
  • Texoceras, and Texoceratinae in [http://www.goniat.org/index.html Goniat online] 12/02/10
  • [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=93163 Texoceratinae -Paleobiology Database] 12/02/10
  • [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13912 Texoceras - Paleobiology Database] 11/18/10

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Category:Goniatitida genera

Category:Adrianitidae

Category:Ammonites of North America

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