Projovellania Temporal range: M
Silurian
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
Order: | † Oncocerida |
Family: | † Jovellaniidae |
Genus: | †
Projovellania Hyatt in Zillel, 1900 |
Projovellania is an extinct nautiloid cephalopod belonging to the oncocerid family Jovellaniidae found in mid Silurian sediments in Europe. The shell is a longiconic cyrtocone, like that of Jovellania or Mixosiphonoceras, except for being compressed rather than depressed.