''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 nautiloids are diverse and speciose, with over 2,500 recorded species ...
s with laterally compressed whorls; shells expanding moderately to fairly rapidly with a tendency to uncoil at maturity. Juvenile forms are somewhat cyrtoconic. The apical end forms a hook. ''Aipoceras'' has been found in Lower Mississippian strata in the U.S.
References
* Bernard Kummel, 1964. Nautiloidea - Nautilida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America.
''Aipoceras''i
Fossilworks
Prehistoric nautiloid genera
Fossil taxa described in 1884
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