Proterovaginoceras (Ancient Greek for "earlier shield horn") is a medium to large sized[ambiguous] endocerid (endocone-bearing orthoconic nautiliod) from the Early and Middle Ordovician included in the family Endoceratidae.
Proterovaginoceras has a straight shell with a circular cross section, straight sutures, and a ventral to central, nanno-type, siphuncle which fills the entire apical part of the shell. Septal necks are macrochoanitic, up to two camerae (chambers) long; connecting rings, one chamber in length line the inside of the necks. Endocones are long and slender, fill the entire bulbous, nanno-end, of the siphuncle.
Proterovaginoceras was named by Reudemann in 1905. Dideroceras Flower 1950 and Chisloceras Gortani 1934 are probably synonymous equivalents.
Distribution
Fossils of the genus have been found in:[2]
- Loobu Formation, Estonia
- Abastu Formation, Iran
- Pivorjaiskaja Formation, Lithuania
- Huk and Stein Formations, Norway
- Gillberga, Holen and Komstad Formations, Sweden
- China
References
- ^ Fang, X.; Chen, T.; Wang, W.; Zhang, Y. (2022). "Middle–Late Ordovician cephalopod faunas from western Hunan and Hubei provinces, South China". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 61 (2): 197–216. doi:10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2021040.
- ^ Proterovaginoceras at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
- O. K. Bogolepova, B. Kröger, M. Falahatgar and M. Javidan. 2014. Middle Ordovician cephalopods from the Abarsaj area, northern Iran. GFF - Geological Society of Sweden 136(1):34-37
- B. Kröger. 2014. Middle Ordovician cephalopod biofacies and palaeoenvironments of Baltoscandia. Lethaia
- B. Kröger. 2012. The 'Vaginaten': the dominant cephalopods of the Baltoscandian Mid Ordovician endocerid limestone. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 134(2):115-132
- H. Mutvei. 1997. Siphuncular structure in Ordovician endocerid cephalopods. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42(3):375-390
- J. Laskovas, V. Marcinkevicius, and J. Paskevicius. 1993. The Stratigraphy and Structure of Ordovician Rocks of the South - East Part of the Baltic Basin (Druksiu Area). Geologija, Detailed Stratigraphy (14)81-98
- Tiechert,C. 1964. Endoceratoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Endoceratoidea, Actinoceratoidea, Nautiloidea. Geological Soc. of America and Univ Kansas Press
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