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Chicagooceras
Temporal range: Silurian
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Chicagooceras

Foerste and Savage 1927

Chicagooceras is an orthocerid genus from the Silurian of North America.

Shells are short, breviconic, and faintly curved. Sutures are fairly wide spaced and though straight, slope slightly, dorso-ventrally, to the rear. Siphuncle: small, slightly ventral of the center, thought to be orthochoanitic (straight septal necks) and cylindrical (tubular connecting rings).

References

  • Walter c. Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea -Orthocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America.
  • Chicagooceras in Fossilworks.