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Mecynoceras

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Mecynoceras
Temporal range: Late Devonian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Oncocerida
Family: Poterioceratidae
Genus: Mecynoceras
Foerste, 1926

Mecynoceras is a genus of Late Devonian oncocerids included in the Poterioceratidae, a family of subcircular to compressed exogastric cyrtocones without a hyponomic sinus.

Mecynoceras has a compressed, gibbous cyrtoconic shell. The venter, especially of the chambered phragmocone is convex in profile; the body chamber long and tubular. Septa are transverse, close spaced; the siphuncle large, subcentral, with actinosiphonate deposits.

Cyrtogomphus, Lysagoroceras, and Poterioceras are among related genera.

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