Cumingsoceras

Cumingsoceras Temporal range: Middle Silurian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	†Tarphycerida
Family:	†Uranoceratidae
Genus:	†Cumingsoceras Flower, 1950

Cummingsoceras is a genus of barrandeoceroids within the Tarphycerida, included in the family Uranoceratidae. Its shell is a rapidly expanding gyrocone of about 1.5 narrowly separated whorls.

The surface is faintly cancellated by slight longitudinal lines that cross growth lines which define a deep hyponomic sinus. The siphuncle is small, subcentral, and with recumbent necks.

Cummingsoceras is known from the middle Silurian of Indiana and Illinois.

References

• Sweet, Walter C. 1964. Nautiloidea-Barrandeocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press.