Ancistroceras

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title: Ancistroceras
text: Ancistroceras is one of the two ancestral lituitids from the late Early Ordovician (Arenigian). The other being Holmiceras. The shell is weakly annulate, starts off with 1.5 to 2 contiguous or slightly separated whorls followed by a rapidly expanding orthocone with an apical angle of about 30 deg. Growth lines are sinuous, show a pronounced hyponomic sinus in the coiled juvenile portion at the apex but almost none at the mature aperture of the orthcone. Holmiceras is similar except that its whor
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