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Gomphoceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Oncocerida

Family
  
undetermined

Rank
  
Genus

Subclass
  
Nautiloid

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Similar
  
Nautiloid, Cyrtoceras, Leptomeryx, Oncocerida, Dyrosaurus

Gomphoceras is a questionable nautiloid cephalopod genus assigned to the Oncocerida. The family to which it might belong is undetermined.

Gomphoceras, named by Sowerby in 1839, is generally short but rapidly expanding, straight to slightly endogastric, with a gibbous body chamber such that all sides are convex. The aperture as vertically transverse, with a hyponomic sinus on a low spout-like process and a larger rounded dorsal sinus connetected above.

Tetrameroceras and Trimeroceras, both oncocerids, are similar in general form, but have more complex apertures.

References

Gomphoceras Wikipedia