Labyrinthoceras
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| Labyrinthoceras Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Sphaeroceratidae |
| Genus: | †Labyrinthoceras Buckman, 1919[2] |
Labyrinthoceras is an extinct cephalopod genus included in the ammonoid family Sphaeroceratidae, a member of the superfamily Stephanoceratoidea, that lived during middle of the Jurassic Period.
Labtrinthoceras is described as large, round-whorled with an open umbilicus; body chamber smooth with a terminal constriction. The chambered phragmocone is finely ribbed. Coiling is eccentric, a character of the family.
