Parryoceras

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Parryoceras
Temporal range: Middle and Late Ordovician
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Discosorida
Family: Cyrtogomphoceratidae
Genus: Parryoceras
Sweet and Miller, 1957

Parryoceras is a cyrtogomphoceratid similar to Strandoceras but with broadly expanded siphuncle segments and a nearly staight ventral line. The mature shell is thickened on the inside just behind the aperture resulting in a constriction in the internal mold at the adoral end.

Parryoceras comes from the middle and upper Ordovician of arctic Canada and Norway.

References

  • Flower, Rousseau H. and Curt Teichert, 1957; The Cephalopod Order Discosorida, in University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Mollusca Article 6, pp 1-144 (plates, figs) July1, 1957.
  • Curt Teichert 1964. Nautiloidea-Discosorida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part K, Endoceratoidea, Actinoceratoidea, Nautiloidea. Geological Society of America.
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