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Clarkesvillia

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Clarkesvillia
Temporal range: U Ordovician
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Discosorida
Family: Westonoceratidae
Genus: Clarkesvillia
Flower, 1946

Clarkesvillia is a genus of Upper Ordovician westonocerids that differs from Faberoceras in having a more flattened venter and from the later Glyptodendron in having a more ventrally located siphuncle.

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