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Labyrinthoceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Ammonitida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Ammonoidea

Superfamily
  
Stephanoceratoidea

Similar
  
Kossmaticeras, Lissoceras, Lytoceras cornucopia, Kosmoceras spinosum, Leptosphinctes

Labyrinthoceras is an extinct cephalopod genus included in the ammonoid family Sphaeroceratidae, a member of the superfamily Stephanoceratoidea, that lived during middle of the Jurassic Period.

Labtrinthoceras is described as large, round-whorled with an open umbilicus; body chamber smooth with a terminal constriction. The chambered phragmocone is finely ribbed. Coiling is eccentric, a character of the family.

References

Labyrinthoceras Wikipedia