Mariceras

Mariceras
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous- Early Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Superorder: Nautilitoidea
Order: Nautilida
Genus: Mariceras
Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954

Mariceras is a Late Carboniferous to Early Permian nautilid found in North America and central Asia. Its shell is like that of Schyphoceras but is less curved and smoother.

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