Aipoceras

Aipoceras Temporal range: Early Mississippian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	Nautilida
Superfamily:	Aipocerataceae
Family:	Aipoceratidae
Genus:	Aipoceras Hyatt, 1884

Aipoceras is a genus of loosely coiled aipoceratid Nautiloids with laterally compressed whorls; shells expanding moderately to fairly rapidly with a tendency to uncoil at maturity. Juvenile forms are somewhat cyrtoconic. The apical end forms a hook. Aipoceras has been found in Lower Mississippian strata in the U.S.

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• Bernard Kummel, 1964. Nautiloidea - Nautilida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America.
• Aipoceras in Fossilworks

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