Temperoceras

Temperoceras Temporal range: Ordovician - Devonian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	†Orthocerida
Family:	†Geisonoceratidae
Genus:	†Temperoceras Barskov, 1960

Temperoceras is a genus of orthoconic nautiloid cephalopods that lived in what is now north Africa, Europe, and Asia during the early Paleozoic. It was named by I. V. Barskov in 1960.

Taxonomy

Temperoceras is included in the orthocerid family Geisonoceratidae[1] the type is Orthoceras ludense

Morphology

Temperoceras has an orthoconic shell with a tubular siphuncle that contains annular deposits that are restricted to or begin at the septal openings.

Distribution

Temperoceras has been found in sediments ranging in age from Ordovician to Devonian in north Africa, southern Europe, and China.

References

1. Sweet, W.C. 1964. Nautiloidea- Orthocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geol. Soc. of America and Univ Kansas Press