Sigmocycloceras
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Sigmocycloceras is a nautiloid cephalopod discovered in the Middle Ordovician of Korea, said to be similar to Sactorthoceras
Sactorthoceras
Sactorthceras is an orthoceratoid genus known from the Middle Ordovician of eastern North America , Norway and Korea and is the type genus of the Sactorthoceratidae....

, and included in the Sactorthoceratidae
Sactorthoceratidae
The Sactorthoceratidae comprise Orthocerataceaen genera with a subcentral suborthochoanitic siphuncle composed of slightly expanded segments and free of organic depsits...

, but unique in being longitudinally sigmoid and sculpted with transverse annuli.

References

  • Walter C Sweet 1964. Nautiloidea-Orthocerida; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Geol Soc of America and Univ. Kansas Press.
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