Eremoceras syphax Billings 1865 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae

Often credited to Billings 1863 where it appears but is nude.

Alternative combination: Cyrtoceras syphax

Full reference: E. Billings. 1865. Palaeozoic fossils, volume 1. Geological Survey of Canada 1-426

Belongs to Eremoceras according to E. O. Ulrich et al. 1943

See also Hyatt 1884

Sister taxa: Eremoceras conoidale, Eremoceras difficile, Eremoceras gasconadense, Eremoceras luthei, Eremoceras marylandicum, Eremoceras perdilatum, Eremoceras subrectum, Eremoceras teres, Eremoceras vernonense

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Point Levis (Ordovician of Quebec)

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