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Geisonocerina

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Phylum:Mollusca
Order:†Orthocerida
Geisonocerina
Temporal range: Ordovician-Permian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: †Orthocerida
Family: †Geisonoceratidae
Genus: †Geisonocerina
Foeste 1935

Geisonocerina is an extinct genus from the carnivorous nautiloid cephalopod order Orthocerida that lived in what would be North America, Europe, and Asia during the Ordovician through Permian from 449 to 290 mya, existing for approximately 159 million years.

Geisonocerina was named by Foeste (1935) and included in the Geisonoceratidae as part of the Orthocerida [1] where it is listed in Sepkoski (2002).[2]

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