Megaloceras

For the extinct deer, see Megaloceros.

Megaloceras Temporal range: Silurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	Oncocerida
Family:	Karoceratidae
Genus:	Megaloceras Zhuravleva, 1974

Megaloceras is a genus of the nautiloid order Oncocerida that lived during the Silurian period of the Paleozoic. It is included in the family Karoceratidae, characterized by compressed straight or exogastricly curved shells with slender ventral siphuncles.

References

• Megaloceras Paleobiology Database 7/9/12
• Sepkoski's list of Cephalopods
• Walter C. Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea-Oncocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.