Cumingsoceras Temporal range: Middle Silurian
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Scientific classification
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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.