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

{{Portal|Paleontology}}

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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