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Stereotoceras

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Phylum:Mollusca
Subclass:Nautiloidea
Order:†Oncocerida
Stereotoceras
Temporal range: M-U Devonian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: †Oncocerida
Family: †Brevicoceratidae
Genus: †Stereotoceras
Flower, 1950

Stereotoceras is a Middle and Upper Devonian genus in the oncocerid family Brevicoceratidae that formed a smooth, depressed, gyroconic shell with the dorsum much flatter that the venter. Sutures are straight ventrally but have dorsal lobes. Growth lines outline a ventral hyponomic sinus but are otherwise transverse. The siphuncle in ventral, nummuloidal, with discrete, irregular, actinosiphonate deposits at the septal foramina.

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