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Megaloceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Oncocerida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Nautiloidea

Family
  
Karoceratidae

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Megaloceras is a genus of the nautiloid order Oncocerida that lived during the Silurian period of the Paleozoic. It is included in the family Karoceratidae, characterized by compressed straight or exogastricly curved shells with slender ventral siphuncles.

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Megaloceras Wikipedia