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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Monoplacophora |
Order: | † Archinacelloidea |
Family: | † Shelbyoceridae |
Genus: | †
Shelbyoceras Ulrich & Foerste, 1931 |
Type species | |
Shelbyoceras robustum Ulrich & Foerste, 1936
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Species | |
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Shelbyoceras is a genus of Cambrian monoplacophora which was one of the genera mistaken for a cephalopod, since the characteristics differentiating monoplacophora from cephalopods are few. Shelbyoceras was reclassified based on a depressed groove that forms a band around the shell, which is similar to a feature seen in Hypseloconus [2] (with whom it may be synonymous). [3] The septa in this genus are either closely or irregularly spaced. [2]
Shelbyoceras | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Monoplacophora |
Order: | † Archinacelloidea |
Family: | † Shelbyoceridae |
Genus: | †
Shelbyoceras Ulrich & Foerste, 1931 |
Type species | |
Shelbyoceras robustum Ulrich & Foerste, 1936
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Species | |
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Shelbyoceras is a genus of Cambrian monoplacophora which was one of the genera mistaken for a cephalopod, since the characteristics differentiating monoplacophora from cephalopods are few. Shelbyoceras was reclassified based on a depressed groove that forms a band around the shell, which is similar to a feature seen in Hypseloconus [2] (with whom it may be synonymous). [3] The septa in this genus are either closely or irregularly spaced. [2]