Castelloceras

Castelloceras Temporal range: Middle Ordovician–Early Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	†Orthocerida
Family:	†Baltoceratidae
Genus:	†Castelloceras Eichwald (1860)

Castelloceras is an extinct genus of actively mobile carnivorous cephalopod of the family Baltoceratidae that lived in what would be Europe during the Ordovician from 468—443.7 mya, existing for approximately 24.3 million years.[1]

Taxonomy

Castelloceras was named by Evans (2005). Its type is Castelloceras arennigense. It was assigned to Baltoceratidae by Evans (2005).[2]

Sources

1. PaleoBiology Database: Castelloceras, basic info
2. D. H. Evans. 2005. The Lower and Middle Ordovician cephalopod faunas of England and Wales. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 623:1-81

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