Wutinoceras

Wutinoceras
Temporal range: early Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian)
Scientific classification Edit this 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]

  1. ^ Memoir 2, Studies of the Actinocerida, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
  2. ^ Memoir 19, The First Great Expansion of the Actinoceroids, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources