Biology:Chicagooceras

Chicagooceras Temporal range: Silurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	Orthocerida
Genus:	Chicagooceras Foerste and Savage 1927

Chicagooceras is a genus of orthocerids from the Silurian of North America.

Shells are short, breviconic, and faintly curved. Sutures are fairly wide spaced and though straight, slope slightly, dorso-ventrally, to the rear. Siphuncle: small, slightly ventral of the center, thought to be orthochoanitic (straight septal necks) and cylindrical (tubular connecting rings).

References

• Walter c. Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea -Orthocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America.
• Chicagooceras in Fossilworks.

Wikidata ☰ Q22285425 entry