Donacoceras
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| Donacoceras Temporal range: Ordovician | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | †Orthocerida |
| Genus: | †Donacoceras Foerste (1925) |
Donacoceras is an extinct genus of actively mobile carnivorous cephalopod, essentially a nautiloid that lived in what would be North America during the Ordovician from 460.5—443.7 mya, existing for approximately 16.8 million years.[1]
Donacoceras was named by Foerste (1925). It was assigned to Orthocerida by Teichert et al. (1964); and to Endocerida by Sepkoski (2002).[2][3]
