Nostoceras

Nostoceras
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Suborder: †Ancyloceratina
Family: †Nostoceratidae
Genus: †Nostoceras
Hyatt, 1894
Species
List
  • N. adrotans
  • N. alternatus
  • N. approximans
  • N. arkanasanum
  • N. colubriformis
  • N. danei
  • N. draconis
  • N. helicinus
  • N. hyatti
  • N. kernense
  • N. mariatheresianum
  • N. mendryki
  • N. monotuberculatum
  • N. obtusum
  • N. pauper
  • N. pleurocostatum
  • N. pulcher
  • N. rotundum
  • N. saundersorum
  • N. splendidus
  • N. stantoni (type species)

Nostoceras is an extinct genus of ammonites. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos), meaning "return", and κέρας (céras), meaning "horn", named as such by Alpheus Hyatt because the species' shell bends back on itself.

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