Paleocadmus

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Paleocadmus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea (?)
Genus: Paleocadmus
Solen & Richardson, 1975
Species
  • P. herdinae Solen & Richardson, 1975
  • P. pohli Saunders & Richardson, 1979

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.