Olenecoceras is a
genus of
Middle Cambrian[1]fossils that, once believed to be a
cephalopod, has since been excluded from that group (although no alternative classification has been offered).[2] The genus was established by Zakhar Grigor'evich Balashov in 1966, from the river
Olenyok.[3]
See also
Vologdinella – another genus named by Balashov, also was formerly believed to be a cephalopod
^Teichert, C. (1985), "Main features of cephalopod evolution", in Wilbur, Karl M.; Clarke, M.R.; Trueman, E.R. (eds.), The Mollusca, vol. 12. Paleontology and neontology of Cephalopods, New York: Academic Press,
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