Maccoyoceras

Maccoyoceras
Temporal range: Mississippian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Nautilida
Superfamily: Trigonocerataceae
Family: Trigonoceratidae
Genus: Maccoyoceras
Miller, Dunbar, & Condra, 1933

Maccoyoceras is a nautilid genus included in the family Trigonoceratidae from the Mississippian of North America (Michigan) and Europe.

The shell of Maccoyocerasis evolute, volutions only slightly impressed, whorl section hexagonal. Venter flattened, flanks converging, umbilical shoulder prominent. Siphuncle slender, ventral of whorl center.

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