Paleocadmus is a genus of radula known only from the Mazon Creek biota. It is only known from isolated fossils around a centimetre in length, and a few mm wide (in one instance associated with a possible beak), but its morphology aligns it with the nautiloids, or perhaps the bactritoids or belemnoids.[1]
Paleocadmus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Nautiloidea (?) |
Genus: | †Paleocadmus Solen & Richardson, 1975 |
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References
edit- ^ Saunders, W. B.; Richardson, E. S. (1979). "Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesean) Cephalopoda of the Mazon Creek fauna, northeastern Illinois". In Nitecki, M. H. (ed.). Mazon Creek fossils. pp. 333–359.