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Cliftonoceras
Temporal range: LlandoveryScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Cephalopoda Subclass: Nautiloidea Order: †Tarphycerida Family: †Uranoceratidae Genus: †Cliftonoceras
Flower, 1957Species See text
Cliftonoceras is a barrandeoceroid type tarphycerid from the Uranoceratidae characterized by a smooth gyroconic shell with a rounded dorsum and flattened venter, and by a subvental siphuncle composed of thin connecting rings and necks that are straight ventrally, recumbent dorsally.
Cliftonoceras has been found in Middle Silurian age sediments in Tennessee and Indiana. The type species is C. quadratum.
References
- Sweet, Walter C. 1964. Nautiloidea-Barrandeocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press.
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