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Valhalloceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Oncocerida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Nautiloidea

Family
  
Phthanoncoceratidae

Valhalloceras is a genus of nautiloid cephalopods found only in upper Lower Ordovician, Arenigian, carbonates on Svalbard Island and Jan Mayen Island. The type and only species so far named is Valhalloceras floweri Evans and King 1990.

Valhalloceras is assigned to the Oncocerida, it and the related genus Phthanoncoceras are united in the family Phthanoncoceratidae.

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Valhalloceras Wikipedia