Murchisoniceras
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| Murchisoniceras Temporal range: Silurian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | †Orthocerida |
| Genus: | †Murchisoniceras Babin, 1966 |
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Murchisoniceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod Nautiloid, that lived during the Silurian from 425 to 416 mya, in what would be Europe, existing for approximately 9 million years.[1]
Murchisoniceras was named by Babin in 1966 [2] and is commonly assigned to the Orthocerida;[3] sometimes as Insertae sedis[4]
Ivan Kolebaba, 2002,[5] included Murchisoniceras in the Palliocerida, an order of orthoconic nautiloids established by Marek, 1998, for those with incomplete connecting rings and suggestions of cameral mantle, along with other similar genera.
