Pseudobrevicoceras

Pseudobrevicoceras is an extinct genus of nautilitoid cephalopods in the order Oncocerida. The familial position is undetermined.

Pseudobrevicoceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Nautiloidea
Order:
Oncocerida
Family:
incertae sedis
Genus:
Pseudobrevicoceras

Externally Pseudobrevicoceras resembles Brevicoceras, an oncocerid in the Brevicoceratidae, in having a curved, expanded, breviconic phragmocone with straight, transverse sutures.

See also
  • List of nautiloids

References
    • Sweet, Walter C. 1964. Nautiloidea-Oncocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
    • Sepkoski, J.J. Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. D.J. Jablonski & M.L. Foote (eds.). Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1–560.
      • See also List of nautiloids


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