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Cotteroceras

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Cotteroceras
Temporal range: Lower Ordovician
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Endocerida
Family: Proterocameroceratidae
Genus: Cotteroceras
Ulrich & Foerste, 1936
Species:
C. compressum
Binomial name
Cotteroceras compressum
Ulrich & Foerste, 1936

Cotteroceras is a genus of proterocameroceratids from the Lower Ordovician of North America and Siberia characterized by a long straight and compressed shell with very short camerae and long body chamber. Sutures are straight and oblique, sloping dorsoventrally toward the apex. The siphuncle is large but details are unknown.

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