Domanikoceras is monospecific genus of ammonoids that lived during the lower Frasnian stage of upper Devonian period and was named after Domanic Suite in the Timan (Russia). Compressed and smooth shell of these ammonoids had closed umbilicus. Suture was the same as in the gase of genus Tornoceras, while growth lines were similar to Cheiloceratidae, as they were strictly convex. The only species belonging to this genus is D. timidum and its name has been derived from Latin word timid (shy) because course of its aperture has protecting course.[2]

Domanikoceras
Temporal range: 383.3–381.6 Ma[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Tornoceratidae
Subfamily: Tornoceratinae
Genus: Domanikoceras
Becker & House, 1993
Type species
D. timidum
Becker & House, 1993
Species

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References

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  1. ^ "Goniat database - Genus Domanikoceras". Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  2. ^ BECKER, R. T.; HOUSE, M. R. New early Upper Devonian (Frasnian) goniatite genera and the evolution of the “Gephurocerataceae”. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E, 1993, 9: 111-133.