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Cyrtoceras

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Cyrtoceras
Temporal range: Middle Ordovician–Middle Devonian[1] [dead link]
Digital life restoration of "Cyrtoceras sp"
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Oncocerida
Genus: Cyrtoceras
Conrad, 1838

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

References

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  1. ^ Teiichi KOBAYASHI (1987). "The Ancestry of the Cephalopoda: From Helcionella to Plectronoceras". Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences. 63 (5): 135–138. Bibcode:1987PJAB...63..135K. doi:10.2183/pjab.63.135.

Sources

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  • 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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