Rizosceras Hyatt, 1884

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Rizosceras Hyatt, 1884
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Genus Rizosceras Hyatt, 1884

Type species

Orthoceras indocile Barrande, 1866 from Kocorc, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Middle Silurian; by original designation.

Diagnosis

Compressed, rapidly enlarging, straight to faintly curved brevicones with hyponomic sinus and distinct, faintly rugose transverse surficial ornament; siphuncle ventrally positioned near conch margin; septal necks cyrtochoanitic; siphuncular segments cardioid in dorsoventral section. (Adopted from Sweet 1964b.)

Barrande J. 1866. Systeme Silurien du centre de la Boheme, I. ere partie, Recherches Paleontologiques, vol. II, Classe de Mollusques, Ordre des Cephalopodes, ser. 7. Privately published, Praha. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.14776

Hyatt A. 1884. Genera of fossil cephalopods. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 22: 253-338. Available from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42025344 [accessed 20 Jan. 2025].

Sweet W. C. 1964 b. Oncocerida. In: Moore R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K, Mollusca 3: K 277 - K 319. University of Kansas Press, Boulder, CO.