Biology:Actinomorpha

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Short description: Genus of valcouroceratids

Actinomorpha
Temporal range: Middle Ordovician
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Oncocerida
Family: Valcouroceratidae
Genus: Actinomorpha
Flower, 1943
Species:
A. pupa
Binomial name
Actinomorpha pupa
Flower, 1943

Actinomorpha is a genus of valcouroceratid, order Oncocerida, from the Middle Ordovician of central North America (Minnesota, Wisconsin), named by Rousseau Flower, 1943. The shell is breviconic, short and laterally compressed; the venter more narrowly rounded than the dorsum, having the effect of a modest keel in horizontal orientation. The shell is gibbous adorally, such that the body chamber is widest well behind the aperture. The siphuncle is ventral, which could also be indicative of a horizontal orientation in life, with broad, slightly inflated segments and continuous, radial, actinosiphonate, deposits.

While Actinomorpha is a member of the Oncocerida; Actinoceras with its somewhat similar name belongs to the Actinocerida.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q4676971 entry