Nielsenoceras

Nielsenoceras
Nielsenoceras
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Ceratitida
Superfamily: Xenodiscaceae
Family: Paraceltitidae
Genus: Nielsenoceras
Furnish, 1966
Species
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Nielsenoceras is a Paraceltitid genus of from the lower Upper Permian, known from sediments in west Texas. The genus is distinguished by exceptionally broad prongs of the ventral lobe and by the presence of a shallow groove on the outer flanks.

Paraceltitids (family Paraceltitidae) are ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods that lived during the Late Permian, near the end of the Paleozoic.

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