Loxoceras
Appearance
Loxoceras Temporal range: Early Carboniferous
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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
References
[edit]- Walter C Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea - Orthocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.