Oncoceras Temporal range: Mid -Late Ordovician |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
Order: | Oncocerida |
Genus: |
Oncoceras Hall,1847 |
Oncoceras is a genus of oncocerids, family Oncoceratidae from the middle and upper Ordovician of North America and Europe.
The shell, or conch, of Oncoceras is relatively short, a curved, compressed brevicone with a maximum width in the phragmocone just behind the body chamber, narrowing toward the aperture. The siphuncle is small, necks recurved.