Jovellania

Jovellania is a genus of extinct prehistoric nautiloids from the order Oncocerida known from the Lower Devonian of Europe (France, Germany).[1] Nautiloids form a broad group of shelled cephalopods that were once diverse and numerous but are now represented by only a handful of species in two genera.

Jovellania
Temporal range: Lower Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Nautiloidea
Order:
Oncocerida
Family:
Jovellaniidae
Genus:
Jovellania

Bayle (1879)

Jovellania was named by Bayle (1879) and is type genus for the Jovellaniidae, a family assigned to the Oncocerida by Flower (1950)[2]

Morphology

Jovellania can be described as having a slowly widening, straight or slightly cytoconic shell with faint undulations and nearly circular or slightly depressed cross-section [3] The ventrolateral sides are flattened causing the prosiphuncular (ventral) side to be slightly angular. Septa are closely spaced and sutures are transverse. The siphuncle is positioned between the center and the ventral margin and closer to the margin;[1] segments are expanded into the chambers; actinosiphonate deposits consist of longitudinal lamellae [3]

See also

References
  1. Sweet, W.C. 1964. Nautiloidea -Oncocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part K Nautiloidea, Teichert & Moore (eds)
  2. Flower, R.H & Kummel, B 1950, A Classification of the Nautiloidea, Journal of Paleontology 24(3) Sept 1950
  3. Kroger, B. 2008. Nautiloids Before and During the Origin of Ammonoids ...Special Papers in Palaontology no.79, The Palaentological Association, London, March 2008.
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