Stereotoceras
| Stereotoceras Temporal range: M-U Devonian
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Class: | Cephalopoda
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| Subclass: | Nautiloidea
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| Genus: | Stereotoceras Flower, 1950
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Stereotoceras is a Middle and Upper Devonian genus in the oncocerid family Brevicoceratidae that formed a smooth, depressed, gyroconic shell with the dorsum much flatter that the venter. Sutures are straight ventrally but have dorsal lobes. Growth lines outline a ventral hyponomic sinus but are otherwise transverse. The siphuncle in ventral, nummuloidal, with discrete, irregular, actinosiphonate deposits at the septal foramina.
References[]
- Sweet. W. C. 1964. Nautiloidea-Oncocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas press, R.C. Moore (Ed)
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- Oncocerida
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- Late Devonian animals
- Late Devonian genus extinctions
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