Gomphoceras
Gomphoceras is a questionable nautiloid cephalopod genus assigned to the Oncocerida. The family to which it might belong is undetermined.
| Gomphoceras Temporal range: Middle Silurian | |
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| Genus: | Gomphoceras Sowerby, 1839 |
Gomphoceras, named by Sowerby in 1839, is generally short but rapidly expanding, straight to slightly endogastric, with a gibbous body chamber such that all sides are convex. The aperture as vertically transverse, with a hyponomic sinus on a low spout-like process and a larger rounded dorsal sinus connetected above.
Tetrameroceras and Trimeroceras, both oncocerids, are similar in general form, but have more complex apertures.
References
- Sweet (1964). R.C. Moore (ed.). Part K, Mollusca 3. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. p. K190–K216.
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