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Turnoceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Superorder
  
Nautilitoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Nautiloidea

Order
  
Oncocerida

Turnoceras is a genus of Devonian cephalopods belonging to the oncocerid family Nothoceratidae. Its shell is broadly expanding and exogastrically curved such that the flattened dorsum is on longitudinally concave side. Aperture unconstricted with no hyponomic sinus for the water jet funnel. siphuncle along the outer, ventral, side, with radial, plate-like actinosiphonate deposits occupying the interior.

Conostichoceras is similar externally, but has a siphuncle with a trapezoidal aspect to its siphuncle segments. Perimecoceras has similar concave siphuncle segments but is tubular in form.

References

Turnoceras Wikipedia