Haydenoceras
| Haydenoceras Temporal range: Middle Devonian
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| Genus: | Haydenoceras Flower 1949
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Haydenoceras is a genus of middle Devonian cephalopods originally placed in the . The genus can be recognized by its strongly compressed, gradually expanding exogastrically curved shell with a strongly rounded dorsum and acutely angled venter, calling attention to the general form of earlier Bassleroceras. The siphuncle is tubular, central.
Related genera include Avilionella, Barrandeoceras, Gasconsoceras, Laureloceras, and Savageoceras.
References[]
- Walter C. Sweet 1964. Natiloidea - Barrandeocerida, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
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