Wutinoceras Temporal range: early Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian)
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Nautiloidea |
Order: | †Actinocerida |
Family: | †Wutinoceratidae |
Genus: | †Wutinoceras Flower (1957,emend) |
Wutinoceras is a genus of now extinct nautiloid cephalopods of the Wutinoceratidae family. It exhibits orthoconic actinocerids with ventral siphuncles composed of broadly expanded segments.[1][2]