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Ormoceras bebryx (Hall 1879)

Ormoceras bebryx
Ormoceras bebryx

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Actinocerida
Family: Ormoceratidae
Genus: Ormoceras
Species: Ormoceras bebryx (Hall 1879)

Information

Geological Range

Middle Devonian

Paleogeographic Distribution

Wisconsin

Stratigraphic Occurrences

Milwaukee Formation
Lindwurm Member
Berthelet Member

References

Hall (1879): p. 275, plates XXXVIII, XXXIX, LXXXIII, LXXXIV.

Cleland (1911): p. 135, plate XLIII, fig. 1, 2.

Gass et al. (2019): p. 106, fig. 201 (MPM 490).

Remarks

From Hall (1879, p. 275): “Shell robust, straight, regularly enlarging from the apex. Transverse section, allowing for the degree of compression, sub-circular. Apical angle eight to ten degrees. Air-chambers regular, increasing in depth from the apex, and varying in different individuals from six to ten mm.”

Online Resources

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Media

Images

Photograph of fossil of Ormoceras bebryx (P492).
Ormoceras bebryx from the Milwaukee Fm. (Berthelet Mbr.) of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (MPM P492).

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