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Sigmocycloceras

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Genus of nautiloids

Sigmocycloceras
Temporal range: M. Ordovician
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Orthocerida
Family: Sactorthoceratidae (?)
Genus: Sigmocycloceras
Kobayashi, 1934

Sigmocycloceras is a nautiloid cephalopod discovered in the Middle Ordovician of Korea, said to be similar to Sactorthoceras, and included in the Sactorthoceratidae, but unique in being longitudinally sigmoid and sculpted with transverse annuli.

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Taxon identifiers
Sigmocycloceras


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