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Karagandoceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Goniatitida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Ammonoidea

Suborder
  
Tornoceratatina

Karagandoceras is an ammonoid genus belonging to the goniatid family Karagandoceratidae that lived during the early Mississippian (lower Carboniferous).

Karagandoceras has an involute, lenticular shell, with an acute ventral margin. The ventral lobe of the suture is wide with subparallel to divergent sides, divided by a median saddle with a relatively wide median lobe.

Karagandoceratids, which include Karagandoceras and Mesonoceras are a rare offshoot of the Prionorceratinae that differ from their parent group by possession of an acute ventral margin and an increasingly trifid ventral lobe.

References

Karagandoceras Wikipedia