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Thalassoceratidae a family of late Paleozoic ammonites included in the goniatitid superfamily Thalassoceratoidea along with the Bisatoceratidae. Some eight genera are included, although the specific number and exactly which depends on the particular classification. Thalassoceratids are characterized by thick-discoidal to subglobular, involute shells with narrow or closed umbilici and serrate or digitate external lobes in the suture. This latter distinguishes them from the Bisatoceratidae in which the external lobes are smooth. The ventral lobe is extremely wide; the height of median saddle may exceed half the height of the entire ventral lobe itself. Some forms have ventrolateral grooves but spiral ornamentation is absent. Miller, Funish, and Schindewolf, 1957, in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L included ''Thalassoceras'', ''Eothalassoceras'', ''Delepinoceas'', ''Gleboceras'', ''Epithalassoceras''. Saunders, Work, and Nikolaeva, 1999, included ''Eothalassoceras'', ''Prothalassoceras'', ''Gleboceras'', ''Aistoceras'', ''Thalassoceras'', ''Epithalassoceras'', ''Aristoceratoides''. In the revised Treatise (W.M. Furnish et al. 2009) the Thalassoceratidae is divided into two subfamilies, the Gleboceratinae which includes ''Gleboceras'' and ''Mapesites'' and the Thalssoceratinae which includes ''Aristoceras'', ''Aristoceratoides'', ''Eothalassoceras'', ''Epithalassoceras'', ''Prothalassoceras'', and ''Thalassoceras''. ==References== * (Thalassoceratidae in GONIAT Online ) 6/14/12 * W. B. Saunders, et al., 1999. Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material. Science Magazine () * (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=93050&is_real_user=1 ) * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thalassoceratidae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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