Biology:Kentlandoceras

Short description: Genus of molluscs

Kentlandoceras Temporal range: Middle Ordovician PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Oncocerida
Family:	Oncoceratidae
Genus:	Kentlandoceras Foerste, 1932

Kentlandoceras is a genus of middle Ordovician Oncocerids (family Oncoceratidae). Its shell is curved exogastrically, such that the ventral margin is longitudinally convex, but less so than in Loganoceras, and with a submarginal ventral siphuncle instead. The siphuncle in Loganoceras is subcentral. The related Romingoceras is more curved, also with a ventral siphuncle.

All three genera are from the Middle Ordovician of North America.

References

• Walter C Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea -Oncocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
• Kentlandoceras, Paleobiology database.

Wikidata ☰ Q16801118 entry