Aethoceras
Genus of molluscs
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Aethoceras is a genus of Tarphycerida nautiloids included in the family Estonioceratidae for which the shell is a loosely coiled, gradually expanding dextral torticone with a slightly depressed whorl section. Siphuncle small, ventral, submarginal. Whorl section somewhat resembles early stages of Estonioceras in being laterally fanged. Trochoidal coiling brings to mind the later Trocholitidae. Aethoceras was originally found in the lower Ordovician of Western Australia.
| Aethoceras Temporal range: late Early Ordovician | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
| Order: | †Tarphycerida |
| Family: | †Estonioceratidae |
| Genus: | †Aethoceras Teichert & Glenister, 1954 |
References
- Furnish & Glennster, 1964, Nautiloidea - Tarphycerida. Treatise on Invertetrate Paleontology, Part C. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Ka.
- Aethoceras in Fossilworks. 1/5/15
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