Inversoceras
{{Short description|Extinct genus of molluscs}}
{{Taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Silurian}}
| image = Nautiloidea - Inversoceras perversum.JPG
| image_caption = Inversoceras perversum, Barrande from Prague Zadní Kopanina (Czech Republic) at the National Museum (Prague)
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Cephalopoda
| subclassis = Nautiloidea
| ordo = Oncocerida
| familia = Trimeroceratidae
| genus = Inversoceras
| genus_authority = Hedstroem 1917
}}
Inversoceras is a genus of cephalopods in the order Oncocerida and the family Trimeroceratidae. These mollusks were fast-moving nektobenthic carnivores. They lived in the Silurian period, from the Lower Wenlock age (428.2 ± 1.5 to 422.9 ± 2.8 mya) to the Ludlow age (422.9 ± 1.5 to 418.7 ± 2.8 mya).
Distribution
Silurian of Sweden, United States (Wisconsin).
Species
- Inversoceras falciformis (Barrande 1865)
- Inversoceras percurvatum Foerste 1926
- Inversoceras perversum eoperversum Stridsberg 1988
- Inversoceras perversum falciformis (Barrande 1865)
- Inversoceras perversum perversum (Barrande 1865)
See also
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References
- [https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id601408/ Biolib]
- [http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings?page=7&search_term=ns%3AINV* Global Names]
- [https://www.paleodb.org Paleobiology Database]
- Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class Sepkoski's Online Genus Database]
- Sven Stridsberg [https://books.google.com/books?id=8xxbYgEACAAJ Evolution Within the Silurian Cephalopod Genus Inversoceras]
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Category:Prehistoric nautiloid genera
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