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Loxoceras

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Loxoceras
Temporal range: Early Carboniferous
L.breynii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Orthocerida
Genus: Loxoceras
M'Coy, 1844

Loxoceras is a genus of orthocerids of uncertain affinity, the shell of which is a smooth orthocone with the siphuncle between the center and probably the venter. Type species: Orthocera breyni Fleming 1928. May be equivalent to Breynioceras Foerse 1939. Loxoceras has been found in Lower Carboniferous marine strata in Europe

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