Nielsenoceras Temporal range: Late Permian |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Ceratitida |
Superfamily: | Xenodiscaceae |
Family: | Paraceltitidae |
Genus: |
Nielsenoceras Furnish, 1966 |
Species | |
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Nielsenoceras is a Paraceltitid genus from the lower Upper Permian, known from sediments in west Texas. The genus is distinguished by exceptionally broad prongs of the ventral lobe and by the presence of a shallow groove on the outer flanks.
Paraceltitids (family Paraceltitidae) are ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods that lived during the Late Permian, near the end of the Paleozoic.