Maelonoceras
{{Short description|Extinct genus of nautiloids}}
{{Taxobox
| fossil_range = Ordovician - Silurian
| image =
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Cephalopoda
| ordo = Oncocerida
| familia =
| genus = Maelonoceras
| genus_authority = Hyatt 1884 }}
Maelonoceras is a Late Ordovician - early Silurian oncocerid found in Ontario.
==Description==
The shell is a faintly gibbous exogastric cyrtocone with subparallel dorsal and ventral profiles but adorally converging sides. The aperture vizored, pear-shaped. The Siphuncle small, ventral.
Taxonomic relation
Maelonoceras is nautiloid cephalopod included in the Oncoceratidae along with such genera as Oncoceras, Belotoceras, Digenuoceras, and Maimoceras.
References
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- Walter C. Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea-Oncocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K.
- [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13057 Maelonoceras] Fossilworks entry.
- Jack Sepkoski 2002. [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class List of cephalopod genera]
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