Fayettoceras

Fayettoceras is a genus in the nautiloid family Valcouroceratidae, part of the order Oncocerida, Fayettoceras has a shell which is a depressed cyrtocone with a ventral cyrtochoanitic siphuncle of elongated ovoid segments strongly contracted at the septal necks. The internal structure is unknown.

Fayettoceras
Temporal range: Late Ordovician
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Oncocerida
Family: Valcouroceratidae
Genus: Fayettoceras
Foeste, 1932
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Fayettoceras was named by Foeste in 1932. Its fossils have been found in the Upper Ordovician of Indiana and ?Wisconsin in the United States.

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