Kentlandoceras
| Kentlandoceras Temporal range: Middle Ordovician | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
| Order: | Oncocerida |
| Family: | Oncoceratidae |
| Genus: | Kentlandoceras Foerste, 1932 |
Kentlandoceras is a middle Ordovician Oncocerid genus (family Oncoceratidae). Its shell is curved exogastrically, such that the ventral margin is longitudianally convex, but less so than in Loganoceras, and with a submarginal ventral siphuncle instead. The siphuncle in Loganoceras is subcentral. The related Romingoceras is more curved, also with a ventral siphuncle.
All three genera are from the Middle Ordovician of North America.
References
- Walter C Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea -Oncocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
- Kentlandoceras, Paleobiology database.
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