Cameroceras
Sign in to saveCameroceras, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára), meaning "chamber", and κέρας (kéras), meaning "horn", is an extinct genus of endocerid cephalopod which lived in equatorial oceans during the entire Ordovician period. Like other endocerids, it was an orthocone, meaning that its shell was fairly straight and pointed. It was particularly abundant and widespread in the Late Ordovician, inhabiting the shallow tropical seas in and around Laurentia, Baltica and Siberia (equivalent to modern North America, Europe, and Asia).
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- Parent taxon
- Endoceratidae
- Image
- Cameroceras attaquant Megalograptus.jpg
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- taxon name
- Cameroceras
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Cameroceras
- start time
- 470000000-
- end time
- 425000000-
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- Species
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Cameroceras, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára), meaning "chamber", and κέρας (kéras), meaning "horn", is an extinct genus of endocerid cephalopod which lived in equatorial oceans during the entire Ordovician period. Like other endocerids, it was an orthocone, meaning that its shell was fairly straight and pointed. It was particularly abundant and widespread in the Late Ordovician, inhabiting the shallow tropical seas in and around Laurentia, Baltica and Siberia (equivalent to modern North America, Europe, and Asia).
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cameroceras” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.