Cumingsoceras

Cumingsoceras
Temporal range: Middle Silurian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: †Tarphycerida
Family: †Uranoceratidae
Genus: †
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.

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