Didymoceras

Didymoceras
Temporal range: Upper Campanian
Artist's reconstruction of D. stevensoni, D. nebrascensis, and D. cheyennese
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Suborder: †Ancyloceratina
Family: †Nostoceratidae (?)
Genus: †Didymoceras
Hyatt, 1894
Species

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Synonyms
  • Cirroceras Conrad, 1866
  • Helicoceras d'Orbigny, 1842
  • Helicoceras Whitfield, 1877
  • Emperoceras Hyatt, 1894
  • Didymoceratoides Kennedy & Cobban, 1993

Didymoceras is an extinct genus of ammonite cephalopod from the Late Cretaceous epoch (approximately 76 Ma). It is one of the most bizarrely shaped genera, with a shell that spirals upwards into a loose, hooked tip. It is thought to have drifted in the water vertically, moving up and down. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek δίδυμος (dídumos), meaning "twin", and κέρας (céras), meaning "horn".

Its taxonomic place is often in flux, being placed in either Turrilitidae, Nostoceratidae, or its own family, Didymoceratidae. Species included in the genus are the following:[1][2]

D. stevensoni shell exhibit in the Houston Museum of Natural Science
  • Didymoceras angulatum (Meek and Hayden, 1860)
  • Didymoceras binodosum Kennedy and Cobban, 1993
  • Didymoceras californicum Anderson, 1958
  • Didymoceras cheyenense (Meek and Hayden, 1856)
  • Didymoceras cheyennense (Meek and Hayden, 1856)
  • Didymoceras cochleatus (Meek and Hayden, 1858)
  • Didymoceras hidakense Shigeta in Shigeta et al., 2016
  • Didymoceras hornbyense (Whiteaves, 1876)
  • Didymoceras navarroensis (Shumard, 1861)
  • Didymoceras nebrascense Meek and Hayden, 1856)
  • Didymoceras newtoni (Whitfield, 1877)
  • Didymoceras nicolletii (Hall and Meek, 1856)
  • Didymoceras platycostatum Kennedy and Cobban, 1993
  • Didymoceras stevensoni (Whitfield, 1877)
  • Didymoceras subtuberculatum Howarth, 1965
  • Didymoceras tenuicostatus (Meek and Hayden, 1858)
  • Didymoceras tortus (Meek and Hayden, 1858)
  • Didymoceras tricostatus (Whitfield, 1897)
  • Didymoceras umbilicatu (Meek and Hayden, 1858)
  • Didymoceras uncus (Meek and Hayden, 1858)
  • Didymoceras vespertinus (Conrad, 1874)

References

  1. ^ "Didymoceras Hyatt 1900". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  2. ^ Kennedy, W. J.; Landman, N. H.; Cobban, W. A.; Scott, G. R. (2000-04-01). "LATE CAMPANIAN (CRETACEOUS) HETEROMORPH AMMONITES FROM THE WESTERN INTERIOR OF THE UNITED STATES". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2000 (251): 1–86. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)251<0001:LCCHAF>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0090 – via BioOne.
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