Valhalloceras
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Phthanoncoceratidae
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Valhalloceras

Evans & King, 1990
Species:
V. floweri
Binomial name
Valhalloceras floweri
Evans & King, 1990

Valhalloceras is a genus of nautiloid cephalopods found only in upper Lower Ordovician, Arenigian, carbonates on Svalbard Island and Jan Mayen Island. The type and only species so far named is Valhalloceras floweri Evans and King 1990.

Valhalloceras is assigned to the Oncocerida, it and the related genus Phthanoncoceras are united in the family Phthanoncoceratidae.

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