Dacryoconarida

Dacryoconarida is an extinct subclass of free living animals from the Tentaculita class, which were common in the Devonian oceans (Fisher, 1962). Dacryoconarids have a subspherical, drop- or tear-shaped embryonic chamber (Farsan 2005). Their affinity is unknown; they have often been placed among molluscs. Their fossils are known from Devonian rocks of Australia, Asia, Europe, North Africa and North America.

Dacryoconarida
Temporal range: Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
incertae sedis
Class:
Tentaculita†
Subclass:
Dacryoconarida†

Fisher, 1962
orders

References
    • Farsan, N.M. 2005. Description of the early ontogenetic part of the Tentaculitids, with implications for classification. Lethaia 38: 255-270.


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