Dombarigloria is a genus belonging to the goniatitid family Cravenoceratidae

Cravenoceratidae

The Cravenoceratidae is one of six families included in the ammonoid superfamily Neoglyphiocerataceae, which lived during the latter part of the Paleozoic era....

; extinct ammonoids which are shelled cephalopods more closely related to squid , octopus and other coleoids than to the superficially similar Nautilus

Nautilus

Nautilus is the common name of marine creatures of cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina. It comprises six living species in two genera, the type of which is the genus Nautilus...

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

Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Devonian Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya , to the beginning of the Permian Period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Mya . The name is derived from the Latin word for coal, carbo. Carboniferous means "coal-bearing"...

 (Mississippian). Dombarigloria is derived from the cravenoceratid Pachylyroceras

Pachylyroceras

Pachylyroceras is a large, generally subglobular, Upper Mississippian gonitite and included in the cephalopod subclass Ammonoidea.-Recognition:...

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References

• Saunders et al. 1999; Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material; Science Mag. http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/1043099.dtl

• The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07