{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossilrange|232|221.5|Late Triassic}} | image = | taxon = Dieneria | authority = Hyatt & Smith, 1905 }}
'''''Dieneria''''' is a genus of ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods from the Late Triassic of western North America with a smooth discoidal shall of which the venter is truncate and the suture simple. Only the first lateral lobe is slightly serrated, the other lobes entire (smooth)
''Dieneria'', named by Hyatt and Smith, 1905, was first found in the Carnian of California and is now also known from British Columbia. According to the American Treatise Part L, 1957, ''Dieneria'' belongs to the Carnitidae, a component family of the Ceratitoidea. Subsequently, ''Dieneria'' was reassigned to the Klamathitidae Tozer, 1994, included in the Pinacoceratoidea.
== References == {{Reflist}} * Arkell, et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise in Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (L157). Geological Society of America. * ''Dieneria'' entry in the Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14093]
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Category:Pinacocerataceae Category:Triassic ammonites of North America Category:Ceratitida genera Category:Late Triassic life
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