Kingdom Animalia Class Cephalopoda Order Nautilida Rank Genus | Phylum Mollusca Subclass Nautiloidea Superfamily Aipocerataceae | |
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Asymptoceras is an aipoceratid genus (Nautiloidea) similar to Aipoceras but tightly coiled and with only part of the body chamber divergent from the previous whorl. Shell evolute, expanding fairly rapidly; umbilicus open, perforate; whorl section ovoid to subquadrate.
Asymptoceras is known from Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) sediments in Europe and North America.
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