Campendoceras
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Campendoceras is a proterocameroceratid
Proterocameroceratidae
The Proterocameroceratidae were the first of the Endocerida. They began early in the Ordovician with Proendoceras or similar genus which had developed endocones, replacing the diaphragms of the ellesmerocerid ancestor....

 genus from the Lower Ordovician of NW Australia
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 and possibly Estonia
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 that can be recognized by its slender, weakly endogastric, longiconic and annulate shell and large marginal siphuncle
Siphuncle
The siphuncle is a strand of tissue passing longitudinally through the shell of a cephalopod mollusk. Only cephalopods with chambered shells have siphuncles, such as the extinct ammonites and belemnites, and the living nautiluses, cuttlefish, and Spirula...

 that contains endocones.

The curvature in Campendoceras is less distinct than that in Clitendoceras
Clitendoceras
Clitendoceras is a member of the Endocerida from the Lower Ordovician with an elongate shell with a slight downward, endogastric, curvature and a siphuncle that lay along the ventral margin. Common for endocerids, the chambers are short and the septa close spaced with sutures sloping forward...

or Mcqueenoceras
Mcqueenoceras
Mcqueenoceras is an early endocerid, a nautilus from the Ordovician period similar in overall form to Clitendoceras, from which it may have been derived. It lived during the later stages of the lower Ordovician. McQueenoceras, like Clitendoceras, has ventral siphuncle but the endocones are thicker...

and the siphuncle is larger.

References

  • Teichert, C, 1964. Proterocameroceratidae, pp 166- 170 in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
    Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
    The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and covering every phylum, class, order, family, and genus of fossil and...

    Part K. Geol Soc of America and Univ of Kansas Press.
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