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TaxNo: 3795Genus Winchelloceras
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Dimorphoceratoidea
Family: Girtyoceratidae
Subfamily: Sudeticeratinae
Genus: Winchelloceras
Qualifier: ge
Author: Ruzhencev 1965,p.9
Lower Boundary: UMI Marshall Sdst.I base, 349 million years
Upper Boundary: UMI Marshall Sdst.I top, 339 million years
     1965  Winchelloceras Ruzhentsev: 9.
     1968  Winchelloceras.-Popov: 112.
     1971  Winchelloceras.-Kuzina: 45.
     1980  Winchelloceras.-Kuzina: 61.
     2004  Winchelloceras.-Work & Mason: 1133.

Type species: Goniatites allei Winchell, 1862, p.363 [OD].

A:   Conch discoidal, involute, with very narrow umbilicus; venter broadly rounded, rarely oxycone.
B:   Growth lines fine or coarse, with deep hyponomic sinus.  
D:   Constrictions may be present; no spiral ornamentation.
G:   Ventral lobe with relatively low median saddle, sides convex curved. Adventitious lobe deep and acute, asymmetrical, sometimes bell-shaped.

[KUZINA 1980, p.81: Conch subdiscoidal  to oxycone.  Whorls very to completely involute, with tightly rounded or keeled
venter.  Umbilicus closed to tight.  Sculpture of twice folded growth lines.  Ventral lobe quite wide, with low median saddle
and diverging sides, which are convex in the middle.  First lateral saddle rounded.]

Fig. see TAX300 A, B (W. dzhaprakense, sutures). TAX232 (suture of hypotype).