Cyrtoceras

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Cyrtoceras
Fossil range: middle Ordovician - middle Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Oncocerida
Genus: Cyrtoceras

Cyrtoceras is an extinct genus of oncoceridan nautiloid that lived from the middle Ordovician to the middle Devonian, in Africa, Europe, North America, and South America.

[edit] Sources

  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
  • Fossils (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) by Frank H. T. Rhodes, Paul R. Shaffer, Herbert S. Zim, and Raymond Perlman
  • Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea by Richard Ellis

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