Haydenoceras

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Haydenoceras
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Tarphycerida
Family: Barrandeoceratidae
Genus: Haydenoceras
Flower, 1949

Haydenoceras is a genus of middle Devonian cephalopods originally placed in the Barrandeocerida. The genus can be recognized by its strongly compressed, gradually expanding exogastrically curved shell with a strongly rounded dorsum and acutely angled venter, calling attention to the general form of earlier Bassleroceras. The siphuncle is tubular, central.

Related genera include Avilionella, Barrandeoceras, Gasconsoceras, Laureloceras, and Savageoceras.

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