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''Ormoceras'' is an actinocerid nautiloid genus and type for the family Ormoceratidae, found in North America from the late Chazyan though the early Cincinnatian of the Middle and Upper Ordovician, but which continued through the Devonian worldwide. ''Ormoceras'' is a characterized by its straight shell, more or less circular in cross section, and a relatively narrow subcentral siphuncle composed of globular segments in which the radial canals in the endosiphuncular canal system are straight and normal to the central canal. Septal necks are short, narrowly rounded or sharply recurved, but never recumbent. As with most actinocerids, cameral deposits are common. ''Ormoceras'' is derived from ''Adamsoceras'' which has a siphuncle with the same general form but in which the canal system is reticulate as in ''Wutinoceras''. ''Ormoceras'' gave rise to ''Deiroceras'' early on during the Mohawkian (Middle Ordovician) and slightly later to ''Troedssonoceras''. Ormoceras also gave rise to later genera such as ''Metarmenoceras'' from the Lower Devonian of Quebec, either directly or through ''Cyrtactinoceras'' of the Silurian, once thought to have given rise to the Carboniferous Carbactinoceratidae. ''Ormoceras'' contains twelve named species: *''O.boreale'' *''O.centrale'' *''O.dobrovljanensis'' *''O.ferecentricum'' *''O.koraiense'' *''O.langskawiense'' *''O.manchuriense'' *''O.nanumforme'' *''O.pollacki'' *''O.schohariae'' *''O.tenuifilum'' *''O.yokoyamai'' ==References== *Flower, R.H, 1957, Studies of the Actinoceratida, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 2. *Teichert, C, 1964, Actinoceratoidea, in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, pub Univ of Kansas and the GSA, Vol K, p K210-213 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ormoceras」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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