Mongoceras

Mongoceras is an extinct orthoconic nautiloid cephalopod found in the Silurian of China and Siberia.[1] It is included in the Orthocerida.[2] The family in undetermined.

Mongoceras
Temporal range: 443.7โ€“428.2 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Nautiloidea
Order:
Orthocerida
Superfamily:
Orthocerataceae
Genus:
Mongoceras

Morphology

As with the Orthocerida the shell of Mongoceras is generally long and straight, with a generally central siphuncle composed of thin connecting rings. A vertical, heads down orientation in life can be inferred, in contrast with the horizontal benthic orientation of ellesmerocerida, endocerids, and many actinocerids with their weighted ventral siphuncles.[3]

Association

Mongoceras has been found with Kionoceras, Geisonocers, and Sichuanoceras in Silurian reefoid formations in China, along with a suite of other benthic invertebrates. It has also been found in core samples from Siberia with Edenoceras hiliferum and Geisonoceras kureikense.[3]

References
  1. PaleoBiology Database Mongocerasentry accessed 10 July 2012
  2. Sepkoski's list of Cephalopod genera
  3. C. Teichert (1964). R.C. Moore (ed.). Part K, Mollusca 3. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. p. K190โ€“K216.


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