''Dombarigloria'' is a genus belonging to the goniatitid family

Cravenoceratidae The Cravenoceratidae is one of six families included in the ammonoid superfamily Neoglyphioceratoidea, which lived during the latter part of the Paleozoic The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phane ...

; 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 The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...

(Mississippian). ''Dombarigloria'' is derived from the cravenoceratid ''

Pachylyroceras ''Pachylyroceras'' is a large, generally subglobular, Upper Mississippian gonitite and included in the cephalopod subclass Ammonoidea. Recognition ''Pachylyroceras'' produced a large shell that is moderately evolute to moderately involute and ...

''.

References

* Saunders et al. 1999; Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material; Science Mag.

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