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''Adeloceras'' is a genus of Mississippian to Lower Permian nautiloid cephalopods included in the nautilid superfamily
Aipocerataceae The Aipoceratoidea are a superfamily within the order Nautilida characterized by rapidly expanding, smooth to ribbed, cyrtoconic to coiled shells with rounded or sometimes dorsally flattened or impressed whorls, nearly straight sutures, and a v ...
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Aipoceras ''Aipoceras'' is a genus of loosely coiled aipoceratid nautiloid Nautiloids are a group of marine cephalopods ( Mollusca) which originated in the Late Cambrian and are represented today by the living ''Nautilus'' and ''Allonautilus''. Fossil ...
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Asymptoceras ''Asymptoceras'' is a genus of aipoceratids (Nautiloidea) similar to ''Aipoceras'' but tightly coiled and with only part of the body chamber divergent from the previous whorl. Shell evolute, expanding fairly rapidly; umbilicus open, perforate; ...
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Solenochilus ''Solenochilus'', type genus of the Solenochilidae is an extinct cosmopotilian nautilid from the Lower Pennsylvanian to the Lower Permian with a rapidly expanding, coiled globular shell with few whorls, from which prominent spines extend latera ...
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References


The Paleobiology Database Aipocerataceae entry
* List of cephalopod genera, J.J. Sepkoski

Prehistoric nautiloid genera Mississippian first appearances Cisuralian genus extinctions {{paleo-nautiloidea-stub