Kentlandoceras

{{short description|Genus of molluscs}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|460.9|449.5|Middle Ordovician }}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Cephalopoda

| ordo = Oncocerida

| familia = Oncoceratidae

| genus = Kentlandoceras

| genus_authority = 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

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  • Walter C Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea -Oncocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
  • [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13044 Kentlandoceras], Paleobiology database.

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Category:Prehistoric nautiloid genera

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