Orthoceras annulata
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Orthoceratoidea
Order: Orthcerida
Family: Orthoceratidae
Genus: Orthoceras (Breynius, 1832)
Species: Orthoceras annulata (Sowerby, 1818)
Specimen with an orthoconic shell that has faint, transverse annulation. Prominent thin, transverse/curved lirae between each annulation.
Specifications
| Object name | Orthoceras annulata |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0486 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Cephalopoda Subclass: Orthoceratoidea |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Silurian Epoch: Wenlock |
| Numeric age | 433.4 Mya |
| Origin | Rochester, New York, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- J. Sowerby. 1818. No. XXX in the mineral conchology of Great Britain; or colored figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. The mineral conchology of Great Britain 3:1-194