Cycloceras

Cycloceras is an extinct nautiloid cephalopod genus from the Carboniferous of Western Europe, of unknown affinity with the Orthocerida.

Taxonomy

Cycloceras was named by McCoy and to the Orthocerida by Sweet in Teichert et al. ; Cycloceras is possibly a member of the Cycloceratidae and may be synonymous with Perigrammoceras.

Morphology

The type species of Cycloceras, C. annularis, is based in an internal mold of a body chamber on which the position of the siphuncle is indiscernible Species referred to Cycloceras are annulated, subcylindrical orthocones with no longitudinal ornamentation. Fig 186, p K258 Teichert et al. shows Cycloceras as narrow, gently expanding, annulated orthocone with a narrow subcentral siphuncle. Annuli are thick and close spaced, giving a corrugated appearance.