Rioceras Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | †Orthocerida |
Family: | †Baltoceratidae |
Genus: | †Rioceras Flower (1964) |
Rioceras is an extinct genus of orthocerid cephalopods of the family Baltoceratidae that lived in what would be North America during the Early Ordovician from 480—472 mya, existing for approximately 8 million years.[1][2]