Ascocerida
The Ascocerida are comparatively small, bizarre Orthoceratoids known only from Ordovician and Silurian sediments in Europe and North America, uniquely characterized by a deciduous conch consisting of a longer juvenile portion and an inflated short adult portion that separate sometime in maturity.
| Ascocerida Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| The ontogeny of Ascoceras, an Ascoceridian | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Orthoceratoidea |
| Order: | †Ascocerida Kuhn, 1949 |
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