''Chouteauoceras'' is an openly coiled, gyroconic,
nautiloid cephalopod from the
Mississippian of North America belonging to the Nautilid family
Trigonoceratidae
The Trigonoceratidae is a family of coiled nautiloid cephalopods that lived during the period from the Early Carboniferous ( Mississippian) to the Early Permian.
Diagnosis
Trigonoceratidae comprise members of the order Nautilida characterized ...
, and superfamily
Trigonocerataceae
The Trigonoceratoidea are a superfamily within the Nautilida that ranged from the Devonian to the Triassic, thought to have contained the source for the Nautilaceae in which ''Nautilus'' is found.
Trigonoceratoidea are characterized by open-spir ...
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The whorl section of ''Chouteauoceras'' is ovate, higher than wide. The surface is covered with numerous longitudinal ridges and fine growth lines. The suture has broad rounded lateral lobes and dorsal and ventral saddles. The siphuncle is small, subcentral.
References
* Kummel, B, 1964; Nautiloidea- Nautilida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part K Nautiloidea; Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
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Prehistoric nautiloid genera