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English: Lectoholotype[1] United States National Museum (USNM) 69802 of the ellesmerocerid[2] cephalopod Walcottoceras monsense (Walcott, 1924), orig. comb. Endoceras (?) monsensis, from the Lower Ordovician Mons Formation of southwestern Alberta, Canada. The specimen consists of an internal mold of a partial phragmocone (~8 chambers) without living chamber. Note the conspicious annulation and the absence of a siphuncle. a) dorsal or ventral view, b) lateral view, c) cross section.
  1. Louis R. Purnell (1968): Catalog of the Type Specimens of Invertebrate Fossils. Part I: Paleozoic Cephalopoda. United States National Museum Bulletin 262, doi:10.5479/si.03629236.262, p. 63
  2. B. Kröger, E. Landing (2007): The Earliest Ordovician Cephalopods of Eastern Laurentia - Ellesmerocerids of the Tribes Hill Formation, Eastern New York. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):841-857, doi:10.1666/pleo05-166.1
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Source Plate 126 (hosted on Commons as Smithsonian miscellaneous collections (1924) (14577490287).jpg) in: Cambrian and Ozarkian Brachiopoda, Ozarkian Cephalopoda and Notostraca. Pp. 477–555 in: Cambrian Geology and Paleontology IV. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 67.
Author Charles D. Walcott (1850–1927)

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current03:51, 7 October 2018Thumbnail for version as of 03:51, 7 October 2018772 × 1,074 (371 KB)Gretarsson{{Information |description ={{en|1=Lectoholotype<ref name="purnell">Louis R. Purnell (1968): ''Catalog of the Type Specimens of Invertebrate Fossils. Part I: Paleozoic Cephalopoda.'' United States National Museum Bulletin 262, doi:10.5479/si.03629236.262, p. 63</ref> United States National Museum (USNM) 69802 of the ellesmerocerid<ref name="kröger&landing">B. Kröger, E. Landing (2007): ''The Earliest Ordovician Cephalopods of Eastern Laurentia - Ellesmerocerids of the Tribes Hill F...

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