Alaskoceras
Extinct genus of molluscs
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Alaskoceras is a genus of lower Ordovician coiled nautiloid cephalopods; the shell moderately expanded, ribbed, with a divergent living chamber; whorl section more broadly rounded ventrally than dorsally; siphuncle marginal at maturity, septal necks short, almost achoanitic; connecting rings thick, layered.
| Alaskoceras Temporal range: Early/lower Ordovician | |
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| Artist's restoration of A. sewardi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
| Order: | †Tarphycerida |
| Family: | †Estonioceratidae |
| Genus: | †Alaskoceras Miller & Kummel, 1945 |
Alaskcoceras belongs to the Tarphycerida, and to the family Estonioceratidae. It was found in Alaska.
