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Plagiostomoceras

Plagiostomoceras
Temporal range: U Ord - L Dev
Plagiostomoceras pleurotomum.JPG
Plagiostomoceras pleurotomum from Jinonice, Prague (Czech Republic) at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Superorder: Orthoceratoidea
Order: Orthocerida
Family: Orthoceratidae
Genus: Plagiostomoceras
Teichert and Glenister, 1952

Plagiostomoceras is an orthocerid cephalopod from the lower Paleozoic (Upper Ordovician to Lower Devonian) of Europe and Australia.

Shells of Plagiostomoceras are long slender orthocones with circular to slightly depressed cross sections. Sutures are straight or slightly oblique and may have faint lateral lobes. The siphuncle is central or offset, probably ventrally. The aperture is strongly oblique, sloping adapically toward the presumed venter.

Plagiostomoceras is included in the Michelinoceratinae, a subfamily of the Orthoceratidae.


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