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Discoceras

Taxonomy
Discoceras was named by Barrande (1867) [Sepkoski's age data: O Llvi S Ldov-l Sepkoski's reference number: 298,524]. Its type is Clymenia antiquissima. It is the type genus of Discoceratidae.

It was assigned to Trocholitidae by Teichert et al. (1964); and to Discoceratidae by Dzik (1984).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1867Discoceras Barrande
1964Discoceras Teichert et al. p. 360
1984Discoceras Dzik

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