Trematoceras

Trematoceras
Temporal range: U Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: †Orthocerida
Family: †Orthoceratidae
Genus: †Trematoceras
Eichwald, 1851

Trematoceras, from Ancient Greek τρῆμα (trêma), meaning "perforation", and κέρας (kéras), meaning "horn", is an orthoconic nautiloid cephalopod from the Upper Triassic of Europe and Asia named by Eichwald in 1851.

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