Temperoceras
Temperoceras Temporal range: Ordovician - Devonian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | †Orthocerida |
Family: | †Geisonoceratidae |
Genus: | †Temperoceras Barskov, 1960 |
Temperoceras is a genus of orthoconic nautiloid cephalopods that lived in what is now north Africa, Europe, and Asia during the early Paleozoic. It was named by I. V. Barskov in 1960.
Taxonomy[edit]
Temperoceras is included in the orthocerid family Geisonoceratidae[1] the type is Orthoceras ludense
Morphology[edit]
Temperoceras has an orthoconic shell with a tubular siphuncle that contains annular deposits that are restricted to or begin at the septal openings.
Distribution[edit]
Temperoceras has been found in sediments ranging in age from Ordovician to Devonian in north Africa, southern Europe, and China.
References[edit]
- ^ Sweet, W.C. 1964. Nautiloidea- Orthocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geol. Soc. of America and Univ Kansas Press