''Tarphyceras'' is a genus of tarphyceratid with whorls rounded in cross section, having a deeply impressed dorsum and a ventral to subcentral

siphuncle The siphuncle is a strand of biological tissue, tissue passing longitudinally through the mollusc shell, shell of a cephalopod mollusc. Only cephalopods with chambered shells have siphuncles, such as the extinct ammonites and belemnites, and the li ...

, known from the Lower

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) of North America. It differs from '' Campbelloceras'' in that ''Campbelloceras'' is only slightly impressed, from '' Centrotarphyceras'' in that ''Centrotarphyceras'' is subquadrate and has a central siphuncle, and from '' Trocholites'' in that although ''Trocholites'' is subcircular in cross section, the siphuncle is subdorsal. ''Taphyceras'' may be derived from ''Campbelloceras'' through development of tighter coiling and a deeper impression along with a smaller

that may be further offset from the venter. ''Tarphyceras'' was named by Hyatt in 1894.

References

* Furnish and Glenister 1964,Nautiloidea - Tarphycerida, K354, in The

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Vol K; Teichert and Moore, (eds) GSA and U of Kansas Press,1964 {{Taxonbar, from=Q7686584 Tarphycerida Prehistoric nautiloid genera Paleozoic life of Newfoundland and Labrador Paleozoic life of Quebec