List Of Prehistoric Nautiloid Genera
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This list of nautiloids is a comprehensive listing of all
genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
that have ever been included in the subclass Nautiloidea, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (''
nomina dubia In binomial nomenclature, a ''nomen dubium'' (Latin for "doubtful name", plural ''nomina dubia'') is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application. Zoology In case of a ''nomen dubium'' it may be impossible to determine whether a s ...
''), or were not formally published ('' nomina nuda''), as well as
junior synonyms The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered nautiloids. Most of the listed genera are found in Part K of the ''
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology The ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology'' (or ''TIP'') published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and co ...
''. Some, added since the year of publication (1964) are found simply in various scientific journals and special publications. The named genera are based on type specimens which are housed in various museums and other academic institutions worldwide, available to interested researchers. Note that '' Allonautilus'' and '' Nautilus'' are the only extant genera.


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*†'' Acanthonautilus'' *†'' Acaroceras'' *†''
Acleistoceras ''Acleistoceras'' is a genus of the oncocerid, 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 nautiloi ...
'' *†'' Acrosphaerorthoceras'' *†''
Actinoceras ''Actinoceras'' is the principal and root genus of the Actinoceratidae, a major family in the Actinocerida, that lived during the Middle and Late Ordovician. It is an extinct genus of nautiloid cephalopod that thrived in the warm waters of the U ...
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Actinomorpha ''Actinomorpha'' is a genus of valcouroceratid, order Oncocerida, from the Middle Ordovician of central North America (Minnesota, Wisconsin), named by Rousseau Flower, 1943. The shell is breviconic, short and laterally compressed; the venter m ...
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Adamsoceras ''Adamsoceras'' is a genus of actinocerids of the family Wutinoceratidae, with spheroidal siphuncle segments like '' Ormoceras'', but having a reticular canal system like ''Wutinoceras''. Adamsoceras has a slender, gently expanding, orthoconic s ...
'' *†'' Adeloceras'' *†''
Adelphoceras ''Adelphoceras'' is a genus of middle Devonian coiled nautiloids from Europe with an oval whorl section and shallow depressed zone on the inner, dorsal, rim; a strongly contracted T-shaped aperture; ventral siphuncle containing actinosiphonate dep ...
'' *†'' Adnatoceras'' *†'' Aethiosolen'' *†'' Aethoceras'' *†'' Agrioceras'' *†'' Aigoceras'' *†'' Aipetoceras'' *†''
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 ...
'' *†'' Akroceras'' *†''
Aktjubocheilus ''Aktjubocheilus'' is a genus of oncocerid nautiloids from the Upper Devonian (M Famenian) included in the Acleistoceratidae, a family characterized by depressed, or rarely compressed, exogastric brevicones and cyrtocones. References The Pa ...
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Alaskoceras ''Alaskoceras'' is a genus of lower Ordovician coiled nautiloid cephalopods; the shell moderately expanded, ribbed, with a divergent living chamber; whorl section more broadly rounded ventrally than dorsally; siphuncle marginal at maturity, septa ...
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Albertoceras ''Albertoceras'' is a genus of Early Ordovician ellesmeroceratids with a small, slender, orthoconic to slightly endogastric shell; some even tiny. The cross section is strongly compressed so as to make the height proportionally notably greater ...
'' *†'' Alethynoceras'' *†''
Aletoceras ''Aletoceras'' is a genus of Oncocerida nautiloids from the middle Devonian of North America included in the family Brevicoceratidae. The shell is a depressed brevicone, that is to say short. Sutures are generally straight, the siphuncle ventral ...
'' *†'' Alexandronautilus'' *†'' Allanoceras'' *†'' Alloceras'' *†''
Allotrioceras ''Allotrioceras'' is a tubular fossil from the Middle Ordovician of the state of New York, collected by Rousseau H. Flower; included by him in the Endocerida and placed in a new family, the Allotrioceratidae. ''Allotrioceras'' is characterized b ...
'' *†'' Allumettoceras'' *†'' Almaloceras'' *†'' Alpenoceras'' *†'' Aluveroceras'' *†'' Amphicyrtoceras'' *†'' Amsleroceras'' *†'' Anamesoceras'' *†'' Anaspyroceras'' *†'' Anastomoceras'' *†''
Ancistroceras ''Ancistroceras'' is one of the two ancestral lituitids from the late Early Ordovician (Arenigian). The other being '' Holmiceras''. The shell is weakly annulate, starts off with 1.5 to 2 contiguous or slightly separated whorls followed by a rap ...
'' *†'' Andreioceras'' *†'' Anepheloceras'' *†'' Angaroceras'' *†''
Angelinoceras ''Angelinoceras'' is a genus of Lituitidae, lituitids from the Middle Ordovician that starts off with an open spiral of about 1.5 strongly compressed whorls followed by a straight orthoconic section that continues to expand for a length about equ ...
'' *†'' Anglicornus'' *†'' Anglonautlis'' *†'' Anguloceras'' *†'' Anhuiceras'' *†''
Ankyloceras ''Ankyloceras'' is a genus of Early Devonian cephalopods included in the oncocerid family Karoceratidae. The type species, ''Ankyloceras nesnayamiense'' named by Zhuravleva, 1974, comes from Nova Zemlya in Russia. Other species have been found i ...
'' *†'' Annoceras'' *†'' Anomaloceras'' *†'' Anomeioceras'' *†'' Anonymoceras'' *†'' Anoploceras'' *†'' Antacaroceras'' *†''
Anthoceras ''Anthoceras'' is a genus of straight, annulated, proterocamerioceratids (Order Endocerida) from the Lower Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 ...
'' *†'' Anthomorpha'' *†'' Antigyroceras'' *†'' Antiphragmoceras'' *†'' Antiplectoceras'' *†'' Antonoceras'' *†'' Aphelaeceras'' *†''
Aphetoceras ''Aphetoceras'' is a genus of tarphycerid cephalopod within the Estonioceratidae; loosely coiled without an impression along the dorsal margin; early whorls barely reaching, separating then diverging in the final mature whorl; weakly ribbed in s ...
'' *†'' Aphractus'' *†'' Aphragmites'' *†'' Aphyctoceras'' *†'' Apioceras'' *†'' Aploceras'' *†'' Apocrinoceras'' *†'' Apogonoceras'' *†'' Apsidoceras'' *†'' Archiacoceras'' *†'' Argocheilus'' *†'' Arionoceras'' *†'' Arkoceras'' *†'' Arkonoceras'' *†''
Armenoceras ''Armenoceras'' is a genus of actinocerid nautiloid cephalopods whose fossils ranged from the late Whiterockian Stage in the early Middle Ordovician, through the remainder of the period and on into the Upper Silurian. It is the type genus of th ...
'' *†'' Arpaoceras'' *†'' Arterioceras'' *†''
Arthrophyllum ''Arthrophyllum'' is a defunct genus of plants in the family Araliaceae.Gregory M. Plunkett, Jun Wen, Porter P. Lowry II, Murray J. Henwood, Pedro Fiaschi, and Anthony D. Mitchell. accepted, undated. Araliaceae, pages ??. In: Klaus Kubitzki (editor ...
'' *†'' Articheilus'' *†'' Asaphiceras'' *†'' Asbestoceras'' *†'' Ascoceras'' *†'' Askeatonolucidum'' *†'' Astoceras'' *†''
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; ...
'' *†'' Athanatoceras'' *†'' Atomoceras'' *†'' Atopoceras'' *†''
Aturia ''Aturia'' is an extinct genus of Paleocene to Miocene nautilids within Aturiidae, a monotypic family, established by Campman in 1857 for ''Aturia'' Bronn, 1838, and is included in the superfamily Nautilaceae in Kümmel 1964. ''Aturia'' is char ...
'' *†'' Aturoidea'' *†''
Augustoceras ''Augustoceras'' is a genus of nautiloid cephalopods included in the order Oncocerida and family Valcouroceratidae. It is known form the Middle and Upper Ordovician of Kentucky and Ohio in the US. Shells of ''Augustocers'' are slender, upwardly ...
'' *†'' Aulaconautilus'' *†'' Aulametacoceras'' *†'' Austinoceras'' *†''
Avilionella ''Avilionella'' is a Middle Ordovician tarphyceroid genus consisting of closely coiled, compressed shells with a small perforation in the center, shallow dorsal impression, and subventral tubular siphuncle with thin connecting rings. Chambers are ...
'' *†'' Avoceras''


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Bactroceras ''Bactroceras'' is a genus of orthoceratoid cephalopods that lived during the early Middle Ordovician, from about 472—464 mya, existing for approximately 8 million years.Nautiloidea – Ellesmerocerida by W.M Furnish and Brian F. Glensister; ...
'' *†'' Badouceras'' *†''
Baeopleuroceras ''Baeopleuroceras'' is a genus included in the Barrandeoceroid family Nephriticeratidae, found in Middle Devonian sediments in eastern North America (NY, Penn, Ont.) The shell of ''Baeopleuroceras'' is a short, rapidly expanding cyrtocone, cur ...
'' *†'' Bakeroceras'' *†'' Balashovia'' *†'' Balticoceras'' *†''
Baltoceras ''Baltoceras'' is a member of the ''Ellesmerocerida'', included in the family, ''Baltoceratidae''. The shell of ''Baltoceras'' is slender with a subcircular cross section, straight transverse sutures, and a large siphuncle in contact with the v ...
'' *†'' Bambusoceras'' *†'' Barnesoceras'' *†''
Barrandeoceras ''Barrandeoceras'' is a large, coiled, Middle Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod and part of the Tarphycerida. The shell is serpenticonic with whorls touching but not embracing. The adult body chamber becomes freed of the preceding whorl, a rather ...
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Bassleroceras ''Bassleroceras'' is an elongate upwardly curved, exogastric, genus with the venter on the under side more sharply rounded than the dorsum on the upper. The siphuncle is ventral, composed of thick-walled tubular segments in which connection ring ...
'' *†'' Bastindoceras'' *†'' Bateroboceras'' *†''
Bathmoceras ''Bathmoceras'' is a primitive cephalopod genus from the Middle and Upper Ordovician. It is a member of the order Cyrtocerinida and is the only genus in the family Bathmoceratidae. Derivation At one time ''Bathmoceras'' was thought to have poss ...
'' *†'' Baykonaroceras'' *†''
Beekmanoceras ''Beekmanoceras'' is a small cephalopod from the Middle Canadian Epoch of New York with a loosely coiled, gyroconic, shell in which the whorls are not in contact and the siphuncle is on the inner or concave side of the whorl. Furnish and Gleniste ...
'' *†'' Belloceras'' *†'' Beloitoceras'' *†'' Bentoceras'' *†'' Bergoceras'' *†'' Bickmorites'' *†'' Bifoveoceras'' *†'' Billingsites'' *†'' Bistrialites'' *†''
Bitaunioceras ''Bitaunioceras'' is a genus of Permian orthocerids with a gradually expanding, straight, orthodontic shell with straight transverse sutures and a small, subcentral siphuncle with straight tubular orthochromatic necks. The shell surface of ''B ...
'' *†'' Blakeoceras'' *†'' Blastocerina'' *†'' Bodieceras'' *†'' Bodoceras'' *†'' Bogoslovskya'' *†'' Bohemites'' *†'' Bolloceras'' *†'' Brachycycloceras'' *†'' Brachydomoceras'' *†'' Bradfordoceras'' *†'' Brevicoceras'' *†'' Bridgeoceras'' *†'' Brodekoceras'' *†'' Broeggeroceras'' *†'' Buchanoceras'' *†'' Buehleroceras'' *†'' Burenoceras'' *†'' Buttsoceras'' *†'' Byronoceras''


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*†'' Calchasiceras'' *†'' Calhounoceras'' *†'' Callaionautilus'' *†'' Calocyrtoceras'' *†''
Cameroceras ''Cameroceras'' ("chambered horn") is a genus of extinct, giant orthoconic cephalopod that lived mainly during the Ordovician period. It first appears during the middle Ordovician, around 470 million years ago, and was a fairly common component o ...
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Campbelloceras ''Campbelloceras'' is a tarphyceratid nautiloid known from the Lower Ordovician, Upper Canadian Epoch of North America, where it is widespread. ''Campbelloceras'' was named by Ulrich and Foerste in 1936. The shell of ''Campbelloceras'' has a ci ...
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Campendoceras ''Campendoceras'' is a genus of proterocameroceratids from the Lower Ordovician of NW Australia and possibly Estonia that can be recognized by its slender, weakly endogastric, longiconic and annulate shell and large marginal siphuncle that con ...
'' *†'' Campyloceras'' *†'' Capriocornites'' *†'' Carbactinoceras'' *†'' Carinonautilus'' *†''
Carlloceras The Centroceratidae is the ancestral family of the Trigonoceratoidea and of the equivalent Centroceratina; extinct shelled cephalopods belonging to the order Nautilida Diagnosis The Centroceratidae, which range from the Middle Devonian to the ...
'' *†'' Carotites'' *†'' Cartersoceras'' *†'' Caseoceras'' *†''
Cassinoceras ''Cassinoceras'' ("Cassin Horn") is a genus of nautiloids belonging to the endocerid family Piloceratidae that comes from the late Early Ordovician of eastern North America and adjacent territories.Teichert, Curt, 1964. Endoceratoidea ''in'' Treat ...
'' *†'' Casteroceras'' *†'' Catastroboceras'' *†'' Catoraphinoceras'' *†'' Catyrephoceras'' *†'' Cayogoceras'' *†'' Cayutoceras'' *†'' Cedarvilleoceras'' *†'' Celox'' *†''
Cenoceras ''Cenoceras'' is an extinct genus within the cephalopod mollusc family Nautilidae, which in turn makes up part of the superfamily Nautilaceae. This genus has been described by Hyatt in 1884. The type species is ''Cenoceras intermedium'' (Sowerb ...
'' *†'' Centroceras'' *†'' Centrocyrtoceras'' *†'' Centrocyrtocerina'' *†'' Centrolitoceras'' *†'' Centroonoceras'' *†'' Centrorizoceras'' *†'' Centrotarphyceras'' *†'' Chabactoceras'' *†'' Chadwickoceras'' *†''
Charactoceras ''Charactoceras'' is a tarphycerid genus cephalopod which lived during the Late Ordovician. ''Charactoceras'' has a closely coiled, rapidly expanding evolute shell, dorsally impressed, with a flattened venter and rounded sides. Sutures are clo ...
'' *†'' Charactocerina'' *†''
Chazyoceras ''Chazyoceras'' ("Horn of the Chazyan") is a moderately large endocerid included in the Endoceratidae with a ''Nanno'' type apex and a ventral siphuncle with a holochoanitic (where "holo" is entire, and "choan" refers to its funnel-shaped openin ...
'' *†'' Chepuloceras'' *†'' Chicagooceras'' *†''
Chidleyenoceras ''Chidleyenoceras'' is a Middle Ordovician tarphyceroid with a closely coiled, evolute shell; whorl section subquadrate, widest just above a broadly rounded venter; dorsum with a broad shallow impression; sutures moderately spaced, weakly sinuo ...
'' *†'' Chisloceras'' *†'' Choanoceras'' *†'' Chouteauoceras'' *†'' Chrysoceras'' *†'' Chuticeras'' *†'' Cimonia'' *†'' Cinctoceras'' *†'' Clarkesvillia'' *†''
Clarkoceras ''Clarkoceras'' is a genus of breviconic ellesmerocerid cephalopods, one of only two genera known to have crossed from the Late Cambrian, Trempealeauan, into the Early Ordovician, Gasconadian. (Flower 1964, Teichert 1988); the other being '' Ec ...
'' *†'' Clathroceras'' *†'' Clelandoceras'' *†'' Cliftonoceras'' *†'' Clinoceras'' *†'' Clionyssiceras'' *†''
Clitendoceras ''Clitendoceras'' is a genus of cephalopods in the order Endocerida from the Lower Ordovician (m-u Canadian) with an elongate shell with a slight downward, endogastric, curvature and a siphuncle that lies along the ventral margin. Common for end ...
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Clydonautilus ''Clydonautilus'' is a genus of 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 a ...
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Clymenonautilus Syringonautilidae is a family of Nautiloidea from the middle to late Triassic. Syringonautilidae comprise the last of the Trigonoceratoidea and are the source for the Nautilaceae which continued the Nautiloidea through the Mesozoic and into the ...
'' *†'' Clytoceras'' *†''
Cochlioceras ''Cochlioceras'' is an extinct baltoceratid genus from the lower and middle Ordovician (Arenig - Llanvrin) of what are now Europe, the U.S (Vermont), and China, having existed for approximately 14 million years, from about 478 to 464 mya.Teicher ...
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Codoceras ''Codoceras'' is a genus of nautiloids belonging to the Polyelasmoceratidae, an Oncocerida family. ''Codoceras'', known from the Silurian of Europe, has a compressed, rapidly enlarging shell, curved endogastrically such that the presumed ventral ...
'' *†'' Coelocyrtoceras'' *†'' Coelogasteroceras'' *†'' Coloceras'' *†'' Columenoceras'' *†'' Comaroceras'' *†'' Condraoceras'' *†'' Conocerina'' *†'' Conostichoceras'' *†'' Conradoceras'' *†''
Cooperoceras ''Cooperoceras'' is a genus of Tainoceratid nautiloid cephalopod molluscs within the superfamily Tainocerataceae The Tainoceratoidea are a superfamily in the cephalopod order Nautilida characterized by straight to loosely coiled shells, genera ...
'' *†'' Copiceras'' *†'' Coralloceras'' *†'' Corbuloceras'' *†'' Cornuella'' *†'' Corysoceras'' *†'' Cosmonautilus'' *†''
Cotteroceras ''Cotteroceras'' is a genus of proterocameroceratids from the Lower Ordovician of North America and Siberia characterized by a long straight and compressed shell with very short camerae and long body chamber. Sutures are straight and oblique, s ...
'' *†'' Craftonoceras'' *†'' Cranoceras'' *†'' Crateroceras'' *†'' Cryptocycloceras'' *†'' Cryptorthoceras'' *†'' Ctenoceras'' *†'' Cumberloceras'' *†'' Cumingsoceras'' *†''
Curtoceras ''Curtoceras'' is a genus in the tarphycerid family Trocholitidae found widespread in the late Early and Middle Ordovician of North America and northern Europe. ''Curtoceras'' has a shell that is gradually expanded, with half the fully mature bo ...
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Cycloceras ''Cycloceras'' is an extinct nautiloid cephalopod genus from the Carboniferous of Western Europe, (Ireland and Scotland) of unknown affinity with the Orthocerida. Taxonomy ''Cycloceras'' was named by McCoy (1844 and assigned to the Michelinocer ...
'' *†'' Cyclolituites'' *†''
Cyclopites ''Cyclopites'' is a genus of aglaspidid arthropods that lived in shallow seas in what is now Wisconsin during Late Cambrian The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, a ...
'' *†'' Cycloplectoceras'' *†'' Cyclostomiceras'' *†'' Cymatoceras'' *†'' Cymatonautilus'' *†'' Cyrtactinoceras'' *†'' Cyrthoceratites'' *†''
Cyrtobaltoceras ''Cyrtobaltoceras'' is an extinct cephalopod genus known from the upper Lower Ordovician Fort Cassin Formation at Valcour, N.Y. that is included in the Nautiloid family Baltoceratidae Taxonomy ''Cyrtobaltoceras'' was named by Flower (1964 who ...
'' *†'' Cyrtoceras'' *†'' Cyrtoceratites'' *†'' Cyrtocerina'' *†'' Cyrtocheilus'' *†'' Cyrtogomphoceras'' *†'' Cyrtogomphus'' *†'' Cyrtonybyoceras'' *†'' Cyrtorizoceras'' *†'' Cyrtospyroceras'' *†'' Cyrtothoracoceras''


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*†'' Dakeoceras'' *†'' Dalecarlioceras'' *†'' Danaoceras'' *†'' Danoceras'' *†'' Danzikoceras'' *†'' Dasbergoceras'' *†'' Dawsonoceras'' *†'' Dawsonocerina'' *†'' Deckeroceras'' *†'' Deiloceras'' *†'' Deinoceras'' *†'' Deiroceras'' *†'' Deltoceras'' *†'' Deltocymatoceras'' *†'' Deltoidonautilus'' *†'' Dentoceras'' *†'' Desioceras'' *†'' Devonocheilus'' *†''
Diademoceras ''Diademoceras'' is a genus of nautiloid cephalopods from the middle Devonian of North America, named by Rousseau Flower in 1945. The genus is a tainoceratacean included in the nautilid family Rutoceratidae Rutoceratidae is a family of prototy ...
'' *†'' Diagoceras'' *†'' Diaphoroceras'' *†'' Diastoloceras'' *†'' Dictyoceras'' *†'' Dideroceras'' *†'' Diestoceras'' *†'' Digenuoceras'' *†'' Diodoceras'' *†''
Diorugoceras The Centroceratidae is the ancestral family of the Trigonoceratoidea and of the equivalent Centroceratina; extinct shelled cephalopods belonging to the order Nautilida Diagnosis The Centroceratidae, which range from the Middle Devonian to the ...
'' *†'' Discitoceras'' *†'' Discoactinoceras'' *†''
Discoceras ''Discoceras'' is an extinct marine cephalopod mollusk, a member of the Trocholitidae in the Tarphycerida. It is distinct from '' Discosorus'', It is characterized by closely coiled, gradually expanding shells with a subquadrate cross section, ...
'' *†'' Discosorus'' *†'' Dnestroceras'' *†'' Doleroceras'' *†'' Dolorthoceras'' *†''
Domatoceras ''Domatoceras'' is a nautiloid genus and member of the Grypoceratidae from the Pennsylvanian and Permian with a wide spread distribution. The shell of ''Domatoceras'' is evolute, coiled with whorls touching but not overlapping, some growing to ...
'' *†'' Dongshanoceras'' *†'' Dowlingoceras'' *†'' Drakonoceras'' *†'' Duerleyoceras'' *†'' Dunleithoceras'' *†'' Dwightoceras'' *†'' Dynatoceras'' *†'' Dyscritoceras'' *†'' Dzhinsetoceras''


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*†'' Eburoceras'' *†'' Ecdyceras'' *†'' Ectenoceras'' *†''
Ectenolites ''Ectenolites'' is a genus of small, slender, cylindrical Ellesmeroceratids that resemble '' Ellesmeroceras'' but are smaller and proportionally narrower. Septa, as typical for ellesmerocerids, are close spaced with shallow lobes on either flank ...
'' *†'' Ectocycloceras'' *†'' Ectocyrtoceras'' *†'' Edaphoceras'' *†'' Edenoceras'' *†'' Ehlersoceras'' *†'' Eichwaldoceras'' *†'' Eifeloceras'' *†'' Ekwanoceras'' *†'' Elaphoceras'' *†'' Eldroceras'' *†'' Eleusoceras'' *†'' Elkanoceras'' *†''
Ellesmeroceras ''Ellesmeroceras'' is the type genus for the Ellesmeroceratidae, a family of primitive nautiloid cephalopods, that is characterized by its small, generally compressed, gradually expanded, orthoconic shell, found in Lower Ordovician marine sediment ...
'' *†'' Ellinoceras'' *†'' Elpisoceras'' *†'' Elrodoceras'' *†'' Encoiloceras'' *†''
Endoceras ''Endoceras'' (Ancient Greek for "inner horn") is an extinct genus of large, straight shelled cephalopods from the Middle and Upper Ordovician that gives its name to the Nautiloid order Endocerida. The cross section in the mature portion is slig ...
'' *†'' Endocycloceras'' *†'' Endodiscosorus'' *†'' Endolobus'' *†'' Endoplanoceras'' *†'' Endoplectoceras'' *†''
Endorioceras ''Endorioceras'' is an extinct genus of actively mobile carnivorous cephalopod of the family ''Baltoceratidae'' that lived in what would be North America during the Ordovician from 490–479 mya, existing for approximately . Taxonomy ''Endorioce ...
'' *†'' Endostokesoceras'' *†'' Engorthoceras'' *†'' Enoploceras'' *†'' Entimoceras'' *†''
Eoclarkoceras ''Clarkoceras'' is a genus of breviconic ellesmerocerid cephalopods, one of only two genera known to have crossed from the Late Cambrian, Trempealeauan, into the Early Ordovician, Gasconadian. (Flower 1964, Teichert 1988); the other being ''Ecte ...
'' *†'' Eocyckistomiceras'' *†'' Eocyrtoceras'' *†'' Eodiaphragmoceras'' *†'' Eoectenolites'' *†'' Eorizoceras'' *†''
Eosomichelinoceras ''Eosomichelinoceras'' is an extinct genus from the actively mobile carnivorous cephalopod family Baltoceratidae that lived in what would be Asia and South America during the Ordovician from 461—452 mya, existing for approximately . Taxonomy ...
'' *†'' Eothinoceras'' *†'' Eotrimeroceras'' *†'' Eotripteroceras'' *†'' Ephippioceras'' *†'' Ephippiorthoceras'' *†'' Epicymatoceras'' *†'' Epidomatoceras'' *†'' Epistroboceras'' *†''
Eremoceras ''Eremoceras'' is a genus in the Ellesmeroceratidae which lived during the Early Ordovician, characterized by an orthoconic adult stage, similar to ''Ellesmeroceras'', but with the dorsal side of the adult living chamber somewhat convex, and a ju ...
'' *†'' Eridites'' *†'' Eskimoceras'' *†'' Esopoceras'' *†''
Estonioceras ''Estonioceras'' is an extinct genus of tarphyceridan nautiloids from the Ordovician of Europe. Sources * ''Dinosaur Encyclopedia'' by Jayne Parsons * ''Fossils'' (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward External links''Estonioceras''in the Pa ...
'' *†'' Euciphoceras'' *†'' Eucymatoceras'' *†'' Eudoceras'' *†'' Euloxoceras'' *†'' Euryrizoceras'' *†'' Eurystomites'' *†'' Eushantungoceras'' *†'' Eusthenoceras'' *†'' Eutrephoceras'' *†'' Evlanoceras'' *†'' Exochoceras'' *†'' Exocyrtoceras''


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Faberoceras ''Faberoceras'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric 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 naut ...
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Fayettoceras ''Fayettoceras'' is a genus in the nautiloid family Valcouroceratidae, part of the order Oncocerida, ''Fayettoceras'' has a shell which is a depressed cyrtocone with a ventral cyrtochoanitic siphuncle The siphuncle is a strand of tissue passing ...
'' *†'' Flowerites'' *†'' Floweroceras'' *†'' Foersteoceras'' *†'' Folioceras'' *†'' Foordiceras'' *†'' Franklinoceras'' *†'' Fremontoceras'' *†'' Fusicoceras''


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*†'' Galtoceras'' *†'' Gangshanoceras'' *†'' Garryoceras'' *†''
Gasconsoceras ''Gasconsoceras'' is a genus of nautiloid cephalopods belonging to the tarphyceroid family Barrandeoceratidae, known from Middle Silurian marine strata in Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the ac ...
'' *†'' Gaspocyrtoceras'' *†'' Geisonoceras'' *†'' Geisonocerina'' *†'' Geisonoceroides'' *†'' Geitonoceras'' *†'' Georgina'' *†'' Germanonautilus'' *†''
Glenisteroceras ''Glenesteroceras'', which is of questionable validity, is based on a single specimen from the Lower Ordovician of New York state, described by Rousseau Flower, 1957. ''Glenestoceras'' is described as being a weakly annulate orthocone with a cir ...
'' *†'' Glossoceras'' *†'' Glyptodendron'' *†''
Goldringia ''Goldringia'' is an extinct nautilid of the Rutoceratidae family that lived during the Middle Devonian. It is known from New York, Ohio, and Indiana in the United States. ''Goldringia'', named by Rousseau Flower in 1945, has a gyroconic sh ...
'' *†'' Gomphoceras'' *†'' Gonatocyrtoceras'' *†''
Gonioceras ''Gonioceras'' is an extinct genus of actinocerid nautiloidean cephalopods typified by a broad, low shell; flattened ventrally, convexly rounded dorsally; top and bottom meeting at an acute angle along the sides. In most the shell is rather thin ...
'' *†'' Gonionaedyceras'' *†'' Gonionautilus'' *†'' Gorbyoceras'' *†'' Gordonoceras'' *†'' Gorgonoceras'' *†'' Gouldoceras'' *†'' Graciloceras'' *†'' Graftonoceras'' *†'' Greenlandoceras'' *†''
Grimsbyoceras ''Grimsbyoceras'' is a nautiloid genus included in the Oncocerida order of the family Acleistoceratidae that lived during the Middle Devonian. They have been found in North America (Illinois) and central Europe. ''Grimsbyoceras'', named by Fo ...
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Grypoceras ''Grypoceras'' is a coiled nautiloid cephalopod from the Triassic of western North America, southern Asia, and Europe that belongs to the nautilid family Grypoceratidae. Named by Alpheus Hyatt Alpheus Hyatt (April 5, 1838 – January ...
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Gryponautilus ''Gryponautilus'' is a genus of Upper Triassic nautilids (''generally coiled nautiloid cephalopods'') belonging to the trigonoceratacean family Grypoceratidae, characterized by involute, inflated shells, which at maturity develop narrowly round ...
'' *†'' Grzegorzewskia'' *†'' Guangyuanoceras'' *†'' Guangyuanoceroides'' *†'' Gyroceras'' *†'' Gyronaedyceras'' *†'' Gzheloceras''


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*†'' Hadoceras'' *†''
Halloceras ''Halloceras'' is a gyroconic rutoceratid from the Lower Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the begin ...
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Hardmanoceras ''Hardmanoceras'' is a tarphycerid genus belonging to the Trocholitidae from the upper Lower Ordovician to possibly the lower Middle Ordovician, found in Western Australia. ''Hardmanoceras'' is like ''Discoceras ''Discoceras'' is an extinct m ...
'' *†'' Harrisoceras'' *†'' Haruspex'' *†''
Haydenoceras ''Haydenoceras'' is a genus of middle Devonian cephalopods originally placed in the Barrandeocerida. The genus can be recognized by its strongly compressed, gradually expanding exogastrically curved shell with a strongly rounded dorsum and ac ...
'' *†'' Hebetoceras'' *†'' Hecatoceras'' *†'' Hedstroemoceras'' *†'' Helenites'' *†'' Heloceras'' *†'' Hemibeloitoceras'' *†''
Hemichoanella The Genus ''Hemichoanella'' is a small, extinct, orthoconic nautiloid cephalopod from the Lower Ordovician of Western Australia assigned to the orthoceratoid family, ''Baltoceratidae''. ''Hemichoanella'' and the Baltoceratidae are part of the ...
'' *†'' Hemicosmorthoceras'' *†'' Hemiliroceras'' *†''
Heminautilus ''Heminautilus'' is an extinct genus of nautiloids from the nautilacean family Cenoceratidae that lived during the Early Cretaceous. Fossils of ''Heminautilus'' have been registered in rocks of Barremian and Aptian age.
'' *†'' Hemiphragmoceras'' *†'' Heracloceras'' *†''
Hercoceras ''Hercoceras'' is a genus of trochoidally coiled nautiloid cephalopods placed in the nautilid family Rutoceratidae. These cephalopod lived i in the Eifelian age of the middle Devonian Period, which occurred 398-391 million years ago. Their shells ...
'' *†'' Hercocyrtoceras'' *†'' Hercoglossa'' *†'' Hercoglossoceras'' *†'' Herkimeroceras'' *†'' Hesperoceras'' *†'' Hexagonites'' *†'' Hexameroceras'' *†''
Hindeoceras ''Hindeoceras'' is a genus of nautilids from the middle Devonian of North America, included in the tainoceratacean family Rutoceratidae Rutoceratidae is a family of prototypical nautilids, derived probably from either Brevicoceratidae or Acle ...
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Hipparionoceras ''Hipparionoceras'' is a genus of oncocerids from the middle Devonian of Europe, North America, and China that lived around 395 million years ago. The shell of ''Hipparionoceras'' is curved, rapidly expanding, flared toward the aperture. The cur ...
'' *†'' Hiregiroceras'' *†'' Hoeloceras'' *†'' Holconautilus'' *†''
Holmiceras ''Holmiceras'' is one of two ancestral lituitids from the late Early Ordovician (Arenigian). The other being ''Ancistroceras''. ''Holmiceras'' begins with about 1.5 to 2 loosely coiled whorls followed by a rapidly expanding orthocone, much like ...
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Homaloceras ''Homaloceras'' is an extinct nautiloid cephalopod from the Middle Devonian with a strongly curved shell, included in the nautilid family Centroceratidae. ''Homaloceras'' is characterized by a smooth, exogastrically curved and laterally compr ...
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Homoadelphoceras ''Homoadelphoceras'' is a genus of gyroconic rutoceratid Nautiloid from the Middle Devonian of central Europe. Whorls not in contact, venter and dorsum, (outer and inner rims), broadly rounded. Dorso-lateral and ventro-lateral flanks more or less ...
'' *†'' Huaiheceras'' *†'' Huanghuachangoceras'' *†'' Huiaihecerina'' *†'' Hunanoceras'' *†'' Hunyuenoceras'' *†'' Huronia'' *†''
Huroniella ''Huroniella'' is an extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, alth ...
'' *†'' Hysteroceras''


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*†'' Inclytoceras'' *†'' Indonautilus'' *†'' Inversoceras'' *†'' Iowoceras'' *†'' Irianoceras'' *†'' Irinites'' *†'' Isorthoceras''


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*†'' Jangziceras'' *†'' Jaregoceras'' *†'' Jasperoceras'' *†''
Jiagouceras ''Jiagouceras'' is a genus of early primitive cephalopods from the Upper Cambrian of China, assigned to the Plectronoceratidae. The shell is small, nearly straight with a slight endogastric curvature and compressed cross section. The siphuncle i ...
'' *†'' Joachimoceras'' *†'' Joldagiroceras'' *†'' Jolietoceras'' *†'' Jonesoceras'' *†'' Jovellania'' *†''
Juvavionautilus Syringonautilidae is a family of Nautiloidea from the middle to late Triassic. Syringonautilidae comprise the last of the Trigonoceratoidea and are the source for the Nautilaceae which continued the Nautiloidea through the Mesozoic and into the ...
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Kadaroceras ''Kadaroceras'' is a genus of discosorids from the Devonian, named by Zhuravleva, 1972, possibly a member of the Discosoridae. Discosorids are nautiloid Nautiloids are a group of marine cephalopods (Mollusca) which originated in the Late Ca ...
'' *†'' Kallholnoceras'' *†''
Karadzharoceras ''Karadzharoceras'' is a genus of discosorids from the Devonian, named by Zhuravleva in 1972, possibly a member of the Discosoridae. Discosorids are nautiloid cephalopods generally characterized by inflated siphuncle segments that expand into ...
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Karoceras ''Karoceras'' is a genus of Oncocerida, oncocerid nautiloids that lived during the Silurian and possibly Early Devonian, type genus for the Karoceratidae. The shell is a compressed, exogastric cyrtocone, section sub ovoid. The siphuncle is ventral ...
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Katageioceras ''Katageioceras'' is a genus of nautiloid cephalopods from the Devonian named by Zhuravleva in 1972, related to ''Kadaroceras ''Kadaroceras'' is a genus of discosorids from the Devonian, named by Zhuravleva, 1972, possibly a member of the Di ...
'' *†'' Kayoceras'' *†'' Kentlandoceras'' *†'' Keraiaceras'' *†'' Kiaeroceras'' *†'' Kijoceras'' *†'' Kyminoceras'' *†'' Kinaschukoceras'' *†''
Kindleoceras ''Kindleoceras'' is a genus of oncocerids belonging to the Valcouroceratidae, extinct nautiloid cephalopods that lived during the Middle and Late Ordovician. ''Kindleoceras'' is characterized by a gently curved or virtually straight shell, the ...
'' *†'' Kionoceras'' *†'' Kitatites'' *†'' Kladisoceras'' *†'' Knightoceras'' *†'' Kobyashiceras'' *†''
Kochoceras ''Kochoceras'' is an extinct nautiloid genus from the later Ordovician belonging to the family Actinoceratidae and found in North America. Morphology ''Kochoceras'' is relatively short, breviconic, and grew to be fairly large with a shell more ...
'' *†'' Konglungenoceras'' *†'' Kophinoceras'' *†'' Kosovoceras'' *†'' Kotelnyoceras'' *†'' Krykyloceras'' *†'' Kummeloceras'' *†'' Kundoceras'' *†'' Kyminoceras''


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Lambeoceras ''Lambeoceras'' is a genus of large actinocerids with a convexly lenticular cross section from the Upper Ordovician of North America and the sole representative of the family Lambeoceratidae. Morphological description ''Lambeoceras'' is of mediu ...
'' *†'' Lamellorthoceras'' *†'' Landeroceras'' *†'' Laumontoceras'' *†''
Laureloceras ''Laureloceras'' is a genus of the tarphycerid family Plectoceratidae that lived during the Middle Silurian in what is now North America. The shell of ''Laureloceras'' is a smooth, slender, compressed cyrtocone or gyrocone with the venter more ...
'' *†'' Lavaloceras'' *†'' Lawrenceoceras'' *†'' Lechritrochoceras'' *†'' Leonardoceras'' *†'' Leuroceras'' *†'' Leurocycloceras'' *†''
Leurorthoceras ''Leurorthoceras'' is a genus of flattened actinoceratids with a siphuncle narrower than in ''Actinoceras ''Actinoceras'' is the principal and root genus of the Actinoceratidae, a major family in the Actinocerida, that lived during the Middl ...
'' *†'' Leurotrochoceras'' *†'' Levisoceras'' *†''
Librovitschiceras ''Librovitschiceras'' is a genus of nautilids, in the subclass Nautiloidea, with a triangular cross section, included in the family Aipoceratidae. Its exact relationship with other aipoceratids is uncertain. Whorls are in contact, the siphuncle i ...
'' *†'' Linstroemoceras'' *†'' Liroceras'' *†'' Lispoceras'' *†''
Litoceras ''Litoceras'' is a trocholitid (Tarphycerida) genus that has been found in the Lower and Middle Ordovician of Newfoundland. Whorls in ''Litoceras'' have a broadly rounded cross section with its width greater than its height. Litoceras somewhat ...
'' *†'' Litogyroceras'' *†''
Lituites ''Lituites'' is an extinct nautiloid genus from the Middle Ordovician and type for the Lituitidae (a tarphycerid family) that in some more recent taxonomies has been classified with the orthocerids and listed under the order Lituitida. Fossil ...
'' *†'' Llanoceras'' *†''
Lobendoceras ''Lobendoceras'' is a proterocameraceratid with a rather large, moderately expanded, straight shell with a large marginal siphuncle in which sutures have a broad, deep, ventral lobe and septal necks are subholochoanitic to holochoanitic. Lobe ...
'' *†'' Loganoceras'' *†'' Lophoceras'' *†'' Lopingoceras'' *†'' Lorieroceras'' *†'' Lowoceras'' *†'' Loxoceras'' *†'' Lunanoceras'' *†'' Lychnoceras'' *†'' Lyckholmoceras'' *†'' Lyecoceras'' *†'' Lyrioceras'' *†'' Lysagoroceras'' *†'' Lysagoroceras''


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*†'' Maccoyoceras'' *†''
Macrodomoceras ''Macrodomoceras'' is a genus of oncocerids, family Polyelasmoceratidae, from the Middle Devonian of Australia. The shell of ''Macrodomoceras'' is a compressed, endogastric cyrtocone, i.e. section higher than wide and curved with the ventral sid ...
'' *†'' Macroloxoceras'' *†'' Madiganella'' *†'' Maelonoceras'' *†'' Magdoceras'' *†'' Mahoningoceras'' *†'' Mandaloceras'' *†''
Manitoulinoceras ''Manitoulinoceras'' is a genus of Late Ordovician oncocerid nautiloid cephalopods, found in North America (Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Ontario). The shell is cyrtoconic, exogastric, more strongly curved than in ''Kindleoceras ''Kindleoceras ...
'' *†'' Manjoceras'' *†'' Mariceras'' *†''
Mcqueenoceras ''Mcqueenoceras'' is an extinct genus of early endocerid, a nautiloid from the Floian epoch of the late early Ordovician period. It was similar in overall form to '' Clitendoceras'', from which it may have been derived. ''Mcqueenoceras'', like '' ...
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Mecynoceras ''Mecynoceras'' is a genus of Late Devonian oncocerids included in the Poterioceratidae, a family of subcircular to compressed exogastric cyrtocones without a hyponomic sinus. ''Mecynoceras'' has a compressed, gibbous cyrtoconic shell. The vente ...
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Megadisocosorus ''Megadisocosorus'' is a genus of actinocerid cephalopods similar to ''Armenoceras'' but with a short, slightly curved, breviconic shell. The siphuncle is in contact with the ventral wall, unlike that of ''Armenoceras'' in which the siphuncle is c ...
'' *†'' Megaglossoceras'' *†''
Megaloceras ''Megaloceras'' is a genus of the nautiloid order Oncocerida that lived during the Silurian period of the Paleozoic. It is included in the family Karoceratidae, characterized by compressed straight or exogastricly curved shells with slender vent ...
'' *†'' Meikeloceras'' *†'' Meitanoceras'' *†'' Meloceras'' *†''
Meniscoceras ''Meniscoceras'' is a straight and slender Chazyan endocerid described by Rousseau Flower in 1941 The genus was originally included in the Proterocameroceratidae (Flower, 1955) but later (Flower, 1976) placed with its predecessor, ''Najaceras'', ...
'' *†'' Menuthionautlis'' *†'' Mericoceras'' *†'' Mesaktoceras'' *†'' Mesnaquaceras'' *†'' Mesoceras'' *†'' Mesochasmoceras'' *†'' Metabaltoceras'' *†'' Metacoceras'' *†'' Metactinoceras'' *†'' Metaphragmoceras'' *†'' Metarizoceras'' *†'' Metarmenoceras'' *†'' Metaspyroceras'' *†'' Metastromatoceras'' *†'' Metephippiorthoceras'' *†'' Metrioceras'' *†'' Miamoceras'' *†''
Michelinoceras ''Michelinoceras'' is the oldest known genus of the Michelinocerida, more commonly known as the Orthocerida, characterized by long, slender, nearly cylindrical orthocones with a circular cross section, long camerae, very long body chambers, and a ...
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Microbaltoceras ''Microbaltoceras'' is an extinct genus of the cephalopod family Baltoceratidae that lived in what would be North America during the Early Ordovician. It was named by Rousseau Flower (1964) and assigned by him to the Baltoceratidae. The type s ...
'' *†'' Micronoceras'' *†'' Millkoninckioceras'' *†'' Mimolychnoceras'' *†''
Minganoceras ''Minganoceras'' is a genus in the oncocerid family, Valcouroceratidae, named by Foeste, 1938, from the Middle Ordovician of Quebec, found on Mingan Island. The shell of ''Minganoceras'' is a slender depressed exogastric cyrtocone, curved so tha ...
'' *†'' Mitorthoceras'' *†'' Mitroceras'' *†'' Mixosiphonoceras'' *†'' Mjandymoceras'' *†'' Mnemoceras'' *†'' Mojscaroceras'' *†'' Mongoceras'' *†'' Monocyrtoceras'' *†'' Monogonoceras'' *†'' Monomuchites'' *†'' Montyoceras'' *†'' Mooreoceras'' *†'' Moreauoceras'' *†'' Mosquoceras'' *†'' Mstikhinoceras'' *†'' Muiroceras'' *†'' Multicameroceras'' *†'' Murchisoniceras'' *†'' Muriceras'' *†'' Murrayoceras'' *†'' Myloceras'' *†'' Mysterioceras''


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Najaceras ''Najaceras'' is a genus of straight, slender endocerid known only from the Whiterockian age Oil Creek Limestone of Oklahoma, introduced and named by Rousseau Flower in 1971 and further described by him in 1976. ''Najaceras'' is characterized by ...
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Nanno Nanno (german: Nain, Ladin: ''Nan'') was a ''comune'' (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about north of Trento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 623 and an area of .All ...
'' *†'' Nassauoceras'' *†'' Nautiloceras'' *†'' Nebroceras'' *†'' Neobistrialites'' *†'' Neoceras'' *†'' Neocycloceras'' *†'' Neocymatoceras'' *†'' Neodiscosorus'' *†'' Neodomatoceras'' *†'' Neorthoceras'' *†'' Neosichuanoceras'' *†'' Nephriticeras'' *†'' Nephriticerina'' *†''
Neptunoceras ''Neptunoceras'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric nautiloids. The nautiloids are a subclass of shelled cephalopods that were once diverse and numerous but are now represented by only a handful of species. See also * Nautiloid ** List of nauti ...
'' *†'' Neumatoceras'' *†'' Nikenautilus'' *†'' Nipageroceras'' *†'' Nothoceras'' *†'' Notocycloceras'' *†'' Nucites'' *†''
Nybyoceras ''Nybyoceras'' is an actinocerid genus assigned to the Armenoceratidae and similar to ''Armenoceras'' except for having a siphuncle close to the ventral side of the shell. Morphology As with ''Armenoceras'', ''Nybyoceras'' has a medium to large ...
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*†'' Octamerella'' *†'' Oelandoceras'' *†'' Offleyoceras'' *†'' Ogygoceras'' *†'' Ohioceras'' *†''
Oligoceras ''Oligoceras'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1924. It contains only one known species, ''Oligoceras eberhardtii'', endemic to Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the ...
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Oncoceras ''Oncoceras'' is a genus of oncocerids, family Oncoceratidae from the middle and upper Ordovician of North America and Europe. The shell, or conch, of ''Oncoceras'' is relatively short, a curved, compressed brevicone with a maximum width in the ...
'' *†'' Oneotoceras'' *†'' Onyxites'' *†'' Oocerina'' *†'' Oonoceras'' *†'' Ophidioceras'' *†'' Ophioceras'' *†'' Ophionautilus'' *†'' Oratoceras'' *†'' Ordosoceras'' *†''
Ormoceras ''Ormoceras'' is an actinocerid nautiloid genus and type for the family Ormoceratidae, found in North America from the late Chazyan through the early Cincinnatian of the Middle and Upper Ordovician, but which continued through the Devonian worl ...
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Orthoceras ''Orthoceras'' ("straight horn") is a genus of extinct nautiloid cephalopod restricted to Middle Ordovician-aged marine limestones of the Baltic States and Sweden. This genus is sometimes called ''Orthoceratites''. Note it is sometimes misspelle ...
'' *†'' Orthocycloceras'' *†'' Orthonybyoceras'' *†''
Osbornoceras ''Osbornoceras'' is a genus of Lower Silurian cyrtoconic nautiloid cephalopods known from Ohio and possibly Manitoba, one of five general currently included in the oncocerid family Karoceratidae. Diagnosis -morphology ''Osbornoceras'' grew to b ...
'' *†'' Ovoceras'' *†'' Ovocerina'' *†'' Oxfordoceras'' *†'' Oxygonioceras'' *†''
Oxynautilus Syringonautilidae is a family of Nautiloidea from the middle to late Triassic. Syringonautilidae comprise the last of the Trigonoceratoidea and are the source for the Nautilaceae which continued the Nautiloidea through the Mesozoic and into the ...
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*†'' Pachendoceras'' *†'' Pachtoceras'' *†'' Pakrioceras'' *†'' Palaeocycloceras'' *†'' Palaskensis'' *†'' Palelialia'' *†'' Palmeroceras'' *†'' Pancornus'' *†'' Pantoioceras'' *†'' Paquettoceras'' *†'' Paracenoceras'' *†'' Paracleistoceras'' *†'' Paraconradoceras'' *†''
Paractinoceras ''Paractinoceras'' is a genus of long straight slender actinocerid nautiloid with siphuncular segments in the early stages like those of ''Actinoceras'', becoming narrower in the later stages of the chambered phragmocone like those in '' Ormocera ...
'' *†'' Paracyclostomiceras'' *†'' Paracymatoceras'' *†'' Paradakeoceras'' *†'' Paradiscoceras'' *†'' Paradnatoceras'' *†'' Paradomatoceras'' *†'' Parakionoceras'' *†'' Paraloxoceras'' *†'' Paramecynoceras'' *†'' Parametacoceras'' *†'' Paramooreoceras'' *†'' Paranautilus'' *†'' Parapalaeoceras'' *†'' Paraphragmites'' *†'' Paraplectronoceras'' *†'' Pararhiphaeoceras'' *†'' Pararineceras'' *†'' Parascoceras'' *†'' Parasphaerorthoceras'' *†'' Parastenopoceras'' *†'' Paratrematoceras'' *†'' Parawestonoceras'' *†'' Parevlanoceras'' *†'' Paroocerina'' *†'' Parormoceras'' *†'' Parryoceras'' *†'' Pectinoceras'' *†'' Peismoceras'' *†'' Pelagoceras'' *†'' Pentameroceras'' *†'' Perimecoceras'' *†'' Perioidanoceras'' *†'' Peripetoceras'' *†''
Permoceras ''Permoceras'', the sole member of the family Permoceratidae, is a genus of coiled nautiloids with a smooth, compressed involute shell, whorls higher than wide, earlier whorls hidden from view. The venter is rounded as are the ventral and umbili ...
'' *†'' Permodomatoceras'' *†'' Permonautilus'' *†'' Perunautilus'' *†'' Petryoceras'' *†''
Phacoceras The Centroceratidae is the ancestral family of the Trigonoceratoidea and of the equivalent Centroceratina; extinct shelled cephalopods belonging to the order Nautilida Diagnosis The Centroceratidae, which range from the Middle Devonian to the ...
'' *†'' Phaedrysmocheilus'' *†'' Phloioceras'' *†'' Phragmoceras'' *†'' Phragmocerina'' *†'' Phthanoncoceras'' *†'' Physioceras'' *†'' Pictetoceras'' *†'' Piersaloceras'' *†'' Pilotoceras'' *†'' Pionoceras'' *†'' Piratoceras'' *†'' Plagioceras'' *†'' Plagiostomoceras'' *†'' Planetoceras'' *†'' Platyconoceras'' *†'' Plectoceras'' *†'' Plectolites'' *†'' Pleuronautilus'' *†'' Pleuroncoceras'' *†'' Pleurorthoceras'' *†'' Plicatoceras'' *†'' Plummeroceras'' *†'' Podoliceras'' *†'' Polydesmia'' *†''
Polyelasmoceras ''Polyelasmoceras'' is an extinct genus of nautiloid from the Early Devonian, between 408 and 393 million years ago. The holotype specimen is held by Museums Victoria and was collected near Murrindal in Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: ...
'' *†'' Polygrammoceras'' *†'' Poterioceras'' *†'' Poteriocerina'' *†'' Potoceras'' *†'' Pristeroceras'' *†'' Probillingsites'' *†'' Proclydonautilus'' *†'' Procymatoceras'' *†'' Projovellania'' *†'' Proteoceras'' *†''
Proterocameroceras ''Proterocameroceras'' is an early Endocerid from the upper Lower Ordovician belong to the Proterocameroceratidae The ''Proterocameroceratidae'' were the first of the Endocerida. They began early in the Ordovician with ''Proendoceras'' or simi ...
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Proterovaginoceras ''Proterovaginoceras'' (Ancient Greek for "earlier shield horn") is a medium to large sized endocerid (endocone-bearing orthoconic nautiliod) from the Early and Middle Ordovician included in the family Endoceratidae Endoceratidae is a family ...
'' *†'' Protobactrites'' *†'' Protocycloceras'' *†'' Protokionoceras'' *†'' Protophragmoceras'' *†'' Pselioceras'' *†'' Pseudactinoceras'' *†'' Pseudaganides'' *†'' Pseudancistroceras'' *†'' Pseudaturoidea'' *†'' Pseudendoceras'' *†'' Pseudobolloceras'' *†'' Pseudobrevicoceras'' *†'' Pseudocatastroboceras'' *†''
Pseudocenoceras Pseudocenoceras is an extinct genus of nautilus The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal subord ...
'' *†'' Pseudocycloceras'' *†'' Pseudocyrtoceras'' *†'' Pseudogomphoceras'' *†''Pseudokionoceras'' *†''Pseudonautilus'' *†''Pseudophacoceras'' *†''Pseudophragmoceras'' *†''Pseudorthoceras'' *†''Pseudostenopoceras'' *†''Pseudotemnocheilus'' *†''Pseudotemperoceras'' *†''Pseudotitanoceras'' *†''Psiaoceras'' *†''Ptenoceras'' *†''Ptyssoceras'' *†''Purmanarcoceras'' *†''Pycnoceras'' *†''Pyramidoceras'' *†''Pythonoceras''


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*†''Radoceras'' *†''Ramussenoceras'' *†''Rangeroceras'' *†''Raphanites'' *†''Tripteroceratidae, Rasmussenoceras'' *†''Rayonnoceras'' *†''Rectseptoceras'' *†''Redpathoceras'' *†''Reedsoceras'' *†''Reticycloceras'' *†''Rhabdiferoceras'' *†''Rhabdites'' *†''Rhadinoceras'' *†''Rhiphaeoceras'' *†''Rhiphaeonautilus'' *†''Rhipsites'' *†''Rhomboceras'' *†''Rhomboceras'' *†''Rhynchoceras'' *†''Rhynchorthoceras'' *†''Slender Oncoceratidae, Richardsonoceras'' *†''Rineceras'' *†''Graciloceratidae, Ringoceras'' *†''Rioceras'' *†''Rizoceras'' *†''Robsonoceras'' *†''Slender Oncoceratidae, Romingoceras'' *†''Ropaloceras'' *†''Roussanoffoceras'' *†''Protocycloceratidae, Rudolfoceras'' *†''Reudemannoceratidae, Ruedemannoceras'' *†''Ruthenoceras'' *†''Rutoceras''


S

*†''Sactoceras'' *†''Sactorthoceras'' *†''Saffordoceras'' *†''Savageoceras'' *†''Sceptrites'' *†''Schroederoceras'' *†''Schuchertoceras'' *†''Scofieldoceras'' *†''Scyphoceras'' *†''Tarphyceratidae, Seelyoceras'' *†''Selenoceras'' *†''Selkirkoceras'' *†''Shamattawaceras'' *†''Shantungendoceras'' *†''Shideleroceras'' *†''Shikhanoceras'' *†''Sholakoceras'' *†''Shumardoceras'' *†''Shuranoceras'' *†''Siberioceras'' *†''Siberionautilus'' *†''Sibyllonautilus'' *†''Sichuanaceras'' *†''Sigmocycloceras'' *†''Simardoceras'' *†''Simorthoceras'' *†''Simplicioceras'' *†''Sinclairoceras'' *†''Sinoceras'' *†''Sinolebetoceras'' *†''Slocomoceras'' *†''Smileoceras'' *†''Smithvilloceras'' *†''Soakinautilus'' *†''Solenochilus'' *†''Somalinautilus'' *†''Sophoceras'' *†''Spanioceras'' *†''Sphooceras'' *†''Sphyradoceras'' *†''Spondeioceras'' *†''Spyroceras'' *†''Stagonites'' *†''Standardoceras'' *†''Manitoulinoceras, Staufferoceras'' *†''Stearoceras'' *†''Stemtonoceras'' *†''Stenogomphoceras'' *†''Stenopoceras'' *†''Stenzeloceras'' *†''Stereoplasmoceras'' *†''Stereospyroceras'' *†''Stereotoceras'' *†''Phragmoceratidae, Sthenoceras'' *†''Stokesoceras'' *†''Stolbovoceras'' *†''Strandoceras'' *†''Streptoceras'' *†''Striacoceras'' *†''Strionautilus'' *†''Strobiloceras'' *†''Stroboceras'' *†''Stroggyloceras'' *†''Stromatoceras'' *†''Strophiceras'' *†''Styrionautilus'' *†''Subclymenia'' *†''Subspyroceras'' *†''Subvestinautilus'' *†''Suttonoceras'' *†''Sycoceras'' *†''Synetoceras'' *†''Syringonautilidae, Syringoceras'' *†''Syringonautilidae, Syringonautilus'' *†''Syrionautilus'' *†''Syrreghmatoceras'' *†''Lechritrochoceratidae, Systrophoceras''


T

*†''Tainionautilus'' *†''Tainoceras'' *†''Tajaroceras'' *†''Talattoceras'' *†''Tambegiroceras'' *†''Tanchiashanites'' *†''Tanycameroceras'' *†''Taoqupoceras'' *†''Tarphyceras'' *†''Tartaroceras'' *†''Taskanoceras'' *†''Taxyceras'' *†''Teichertia'' *†''Teichertoceras'' *†''Temnocheilus'' *†''Temperoceras'' *†''Tetragonoceras'' *†''Tetrameroceras'' *†''Tetranodoceras'' *†''Tetrapleuroceras'' *†''Thaymastoceras'' *†''Therioceras'' *†''Theskeloceras'' *†''Thoracoceras'' *†''Threaroceras'' *†''Thrincoceras'' *†''Thuringionautilus'' *†''Tienoceras'' *†''Tirolonautilus'' *†''Titanoceras'' *†''Tithonoceras'' *†''Tofangoceras'' *†''Tomponautilus'' *†''Torquatoceras'' *†''Trachynautilus'' *†''Tragoceras'' *†''Trematoceras'' *†''Trematodiscus'' *†''Tretoceras'' *†''Triboloceras'' *†''Trigonoceras'' *†''Trilacinoceras'' *†''Trimeroceras'' *†''Tripleuroceras'' *†''Triplooceras'' *†''Tripteroceratidae, Tripteroceras'' *†''Tripteroceratidae, Tripterocerina'' *†''Tripteroceroides'' *†''Trispectes'' *†''Tritonoceras'' *†''Trochoceras'' *†''Lechritrochoceratidae, Trochodictyoceras'' *†''Trocholites'' *†''Trocholitidae, Trocholitoceras'' *†''Troedssonella'' *†''Troedssonoceras'' *†''Troostoceras'' *†''Tshingizoceras'' *†''Phragmoceratidae, Tubiferoceras'' *†''Tumidoceras'' *†''Tumidonautilus'' *†''Tunguskoceras'' *†''Turnoceras'' *†''Turoceras'' *†''Lowoceratidae, Tuyloceras'' *†''Tylodiscoceras'' *†''Tylonautilus'' *†''Tylorthoceras'' *†''Tyrioceras''


U

*†''Ukhtoceras'' *†''Uloceras'' *†''Ulrichoceras'' *†''Mandaloceratidae, Umbeloceras'' *†''Ungulites'' *†''Uralorthoceras'' *†''Uranoceras'' *†''Urtasymoceras''


V

*†''Valcouroceras'' *†''Valhallites'' *†''Valhalloceras'' *†''Vasalemmoceras'' *†''Vassaroceras'' *†''Vaupelia'' *†''Venatoroceras'' *†''Veneficoceras'' *†''Ventroloboceras'' *†''Vericeras'' *†''Verticoceras'' *†''Vertorhizoceras'' *†''Mandaloceratidae, Vespoceras'' *†''Vestinautilus'' *†''Virgaloceras'' *†''Virgoceras''


W

*†''Wadeoceras'' *†''Walcottoceras'' *†''Wardoceras'' *†''Weberoceras'' *†''Acaroceratidae, Weishanhuceras'' *†''Welleroceras'' *†''Wellsoceras'' *†''Westonoceras'' *†''Whiteavesites'' *†''Whitfieldoceras'' *†''Trocholitidae, Wichitoceras'' *†''Williamsoceras'' *†''Wilsonoceras'' *†''Winnipegoceras'' *†''Wissenbachia'' *†''Wolungoceras'' *†''Woosteroceras'' *†''Worthenoceras'' *†''Wutinoceras''


X

*†''Xainzanoceras'' *†''Xenoceras'' *†''Xenocheilus'' *†''Xiaoshaoceras'' *†''Xiphoceras''


Y

*†''Yakutionautilus''


Z

*†''Zeehanoceras'' *†''Zerashanoceras'' *†''Zhuibianoceras'' *†''Zhuralevia'' *†''Zittelloceras'' *†''Zooceras''


References

* Uncited genera names can be attributed to Sepkoski (2002) *
Sepkoski's Online Genus Database (CEPHALOPODA)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nautiloids Prehistoric nautiloid genera, List of Lists of prehistoric molluscs Lists of animal genera (alphabetic)