Diestoceratidae is a family in the
nautiloid cephalopod order
Oncocerida
The Oncocerida comprise a diverse group of generally small nautiloid cephalopods known from the Middle Ordovician to the Mississippian (early Carboniferous; one possible member is known from the Early Permian), in which the connecting rings are t ...
with compressed, straight to faintly endogastic breviconic shells with a marginal siphuncle that contains discrete, irregular actinosphonate deposits.
The Diestoceratidae contains five known genera. They are:
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Diestoceras''
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Danoceras''
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Dowlingoceras''
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Lyckholmoceras''
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Suttonoceras''
References
External links
Diestoceratidae -Paleobio db* Sweet, Walter C. 1964. Nautiloidea -Oncocera. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Soc. of America & Univ Kansas Press.
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Oncocerida
Prehistoric nautiloid families