Kingdom Animalia Class Cephalopoda Order Oncocerida | Phylum Mollusca Superorder Nautilitoidea Rank Genus | |
Maelonoceras is a Late Ordovician - early Silurian oncocerid found in Ontario.
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Description
The shell is a faintly gibbous exogastric cyrtocone with subparallel dorsal and ventral profiles but adorally converging sides. The aperture vizored, pear-shaped. The Siphuncle small, ventral.
Taxonomic relation
Maelonoceras is nautiloid cephalopod included in the Oncoceratidae along with such genera as Oncoceras, Belotoceras, Digenuoceras, and Maimoceras.
References
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