Savageoceras
| Savageoceras Temporal range: M Silurian | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Superorder: | Nautilitoidea |
| Order: | Tarphycerida |
| Family: | Barrandeoceratidae |
| Genus: | Savageoceras Foeste, 1932 |
The genus Savageoceras is a barrandeoceratid first known from the Middle Silurian of Illinois consisting of rapidly enlarging, depressed cyrtocones with a trapazoidal section; ventral side wider and flatter than dorsal; sides converging on dorsum. Sutures have slight lateral and ventral lobes and ventrolateral saddles. The surface is covered by transverse striae and has rib-like annulae that are more prominent at the ventrolateral shoulders but otherwise vaguely defined. The siphuncle is central; interior unknown.
References
- Sweet, W.C. Nautiloidea - Barrandeocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Soc. of America and Univ. of Kansas press.
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