Nielsenoceras
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| Genus: | Nielsenoceras Furnish, 1966
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Nielsenoceras is a Paraceltitid genus of from the lower Upper Permian, known from sediments in west Texas. The genus is distinguished by exceptionally broad prongs of the ventral lobe and by the presence of a shallow groove on the outer flanks.
Paraceltitids (family Paraceltitidae) are ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods that lived during the Late Permian, near the end of the Paleozoic.
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