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Balticoceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Orthocerida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Nautiloidea

Family
  
Orthoceratidae

Similar
  
Estonioceras, Discoceras, Geisonoceras, Lituites, Cameroceras

Balticoceras is a genus in the Orthocerid family, Orthoceratidae, from the Upper Ordovician of Estonia, closely related to Michelinoceras. Balticoceras is distinguished by its straight shells with a subcircular cross section, broadly flattened ventrally and evenly rounded dorsally, and by its marginal, orthochoanitic siphuncle. Balticoceras which is included in the subfamily Michelinoceratinae along with Michelinoceras should not be confused with Baltoceras which belongs in the Ellesmerocerida.

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Balticoceras Wikipedia