Inversoceras

Inversoceras Temporal range:
Inversoceras perversum, Barrande from Prague Zadní Kopanina (Czech Republic) at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	Oncocerida
Family:	Trimeroceratidae
Genus:	Inversoceras Hedstroem 1917

Inversoceras is a genus of cephalopods in the order Oncocerida and the family Trimeroceratidae. These mollusks were fast-moving nektobenthic carnivores. They lived in the Silurian period, from the Lower Wenlock age (428.2 ± 1.5 to 422.9 ± 2.8 mya) to the Ludlow age (422.9 ± 1.5 to 418.7 ± 2.8 mya).

Distribution

Silurian of Sweden, United States (Wisconsin).

Species

• Inversoceras falciformis (Barrande 1865)
• Inversoceras percurvatum Foerste 1926
  • Inversoceras perversum eoperversum Stridsberg 1988
  • Inversoceras perversum falciformis (Barrande 1865)
  • Inversoceras perversum perversum (Barrande 1865)

See also

• List of nautiloids

References

• Biolib
• Global Names
• Paleobiology Database Archived 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
• Sven Stridsberg Evolution Within the Silurian Cephalopod Genus Inversoceras