''Dombarigloria'' is a genus belonging to the goniatitid family Cravenoceratidae; extinct

ammonoids Ammonoids are extinct, (typically) coiled-shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (which comprise the clade Coleoidea) than they are to nautiluses (family N ...

which are shelled cephalopods more closely related to squid, octopus and other coleoids than to the superficially similar ''

Nautilus A nautilus (; ) is any of the various species within the cephalopod family Nautilidae. This is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and the suborder Nautilina. It comprises nine living species in two genera, the type genus, ty ...

'' ''Dombarigloria'' (Saunders et al. 1999) one of the three earliest genera in the Cravenoceratidae, appearing in the middle Lower

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a Geologic time scale, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the ...

(Mississippian). ''Dombarigloria'' is derived from the cravenoceratid '' Pachylyroceras''.

References

* Saunders et al. 1999; Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material; Science Mag.

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