Eosomichelinoceras Temporal range: Ordovician
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | †Orthocerida |
Family: | †Baltoceratidae |
Genus: | †Eosomichelinoceras Chen (1974) |
Eosomichelinoceras is an extinct genus from the actively mobile carnivorous cephalopod family Baltoceratidae that lived in what would be Asia and South America during the Ordovician from 461—452 mya, existing for approximately 9 million years.[1]