Eusthenoceras

Eusthenoceras Temporal range: Early Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	Pseudorthocerida
Family:	Pseudactinoceratidae
Genus:	Eusthenoceras Foord, 1898

Eusthenoceras is an Early Carboniferous nautiloid cephalopod with a large depressed, apically curved shell assigned to the Pseudactinoceratidae, (previously ranked as the subfamily Pseudactinoceratinae). The siphuncle is central or located between the center and venter. Necks are cyrtochoanitic, otherwise siphuncle shape and structure are unknown making inclusion in the Pseuactinoceratidae tentative. Siphuncle segments are probably inflated.

Eusthenoceras is known only from the Lower Carboniferous of Ireland. Related Bergoceras is similar in overall form.

References

• Walter C Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea -Orthocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
• Eusthenoceras in the Paleobiology database, 4/25/14