Galtoceras

Galtoceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	Oncocerida
Family:	Acleistoceratidae
Genus:	Galtoceras Foerste, 1934
species
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Galtoceras is a cyrtoconic nautiloid from the Middle Silurian of North America, named by Foerste in 1934.

Galtoceras is genus of the Oncocerida and of the oncocerid family Acleistoceratidae. As with the ascleistoceratids, the curvature is exogastric, such that the lower side, or venter, is on the outside curve. The shell is elongate and slender, wider than high, with a subventral, empty, cyrtochoanitic siphuncle, with segments somewhat expanded into chambers but abruptly narrowed at septal openings.

Euryrizoceras and Tumidoceas are similar genera, also included in the Acleistoceratidae, but which are less slender than Galtoceras.

References

• R.C. Moore, ed. (1964). Part K, Mollusca 3. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. p. K190–K216.