Inversoceras

Inversoceras
Temporal range: Silurian
Inversoceras perversum, Barrande from Prague Zadní Kopanina (Czech Republic) at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Oncocerida
Family: Trimeroceratidae
Genus: Inversoceras
Hedstroem 1917

Inversoceras is a genus of cephalopods in the order Oncocerida and the family Trimeroceratidae. These mollusks were fast-moving nektobenthic carnivores. They lived in the Silurian period, from the Lower Wenlock age (428.2 ± 1.5 to 422.9 ± 2.8 mya) to the Ludlow age (422.9 ± 1.5 to 418.7 ± 2.8 mya).

Distribution

Silurian of Sweden, United States (Wisconsin).

Species

  • Inversoceras falciformis (Barrande 1865)
  • Inversoceras percurvatum Foerste 1926
  • Inversoceras perversum eoperversum Stridsberg 1988
  • Inversoceras perversum falciformis (Barrande 1865)
  • Inversoceras perversum perversum (Barrande 1865)

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