{{Short description|Family of molluscs}} {{Automatic_taxobox | name = Troedssonellidae | fossil_range = L Ord (Cassinian) - MOrd (Whiterockian) | image = Buttsoceras Oxfordoceras.JPG | image_caption = Comparison of ''Buttsoceras'' and ''Oxfordoceras'' | taxon = Troedssonellidae | authority = Kobayashi 1935 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = *''Tajaroceras'' *''Buttsoceras'' *''Oxfordoceras'' *''Troedsonnella'' *?''Glenisteroceras'' *?''Wolungoceras'' }}
'''Troedssonellidae''' is a family of orthoceroid cephalopods from the Ordovician, derived from rod-bearing Baltoceratidae, that have a continuous lining within the siphuncle that resembles very thin and slender endocones. Shells are generally slender and orthoconic. The siphuncle is central or subcentral, composed of straight or slightly expanded segments. Septal necks generally short and connecting rings are thin. Thin cameral deposits (lining the chambers) are known, which along with the position of the siphuncle and thin connecting rings distinguishes them from the endocerids in which they have been included.<ref>Sweet 1964 Nautiloidea -Orthocerida in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K, Teichert and Moore(eds)</ref><ref name = Flower>Flower 1976. Ordovician Cephalopod Faunas and Their Role in Correlation, in The Ordovician System: proceedings of a Palaeontological Association symposium, Sept 1974</ref>
Troedsonnellids first appear high in Lower Ordovician (Cassinian) strata, beginning with ''Tajaroceras'' and extend at least through the Whiterock Stage of the Middle Ordovician.<ref name = Flower/><ref>Hook and Flower 1977. Late Canadian (Zones J,K) Cephalopod Faunas from Southwestern United States: Memoir 32, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources.</ref> They also may have given rise to the Striatoceratidae and to the Narthecoceratidae of the Middle and Late Ordovician.<ref name = Flower/>
==Genera== *''Tajaroceras'' *''Buttsoceras'' *''Oxfordoceras'' *''Ctenoceras'' *''Troedsonnella'' Genera of dubious placement: *''Glenisteroceras'' *''Wolungoceras''
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Category:Orthoceratoidea