Macrodomoceras
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''Macrodomoceras'' is a genus of oncocerids, family
Polyelasmoceratidae Polyelasmoceratidae is a family of oncocerid nautiloids characterized by rapidly expanding endogastrically curved shells, curved such that the ventral side is longitudinally concave. In cross section shells are typically tear-drop in shape to su ...
, from the Middle Devonian of Australia. The shell of ''Macrodomoceras'' is a compressed, endogastric cyrtocone, i.e. section higher than wide and curved with the ventral side concave, with a subtriangular cross section. The siphuncle is ventral, marginal, with continuous actinosiphonate lamellae. ''Macrodomoceras'' resembles ''
Danaoceras ''Danaoceras'' is a nautiloid cephalopod from the middle Silurian of central Europe included in the oncoceroid family Polyelasmoceratidae. Similar specimens from the middle Devonian of North America may belong. ''Danaoceras'' has a laterally co ...
'' in its subtriangular cross section, but its sutures have bluntly pointed ventral saddles.


References

* Walter C. Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea - Oncocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America. Prehistoric nautiloid genera Oncocerida {{paleo-nautiloidea-stub