Peismoceras

Peismoceras Temporal range: Silurian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Peismoceras optatum from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	†Tarphycerida
Family:	†Lechritrochoceratidae
Genus:	†Peismoceras Hyatt, 1894

Peismoceras is a genus of fossil Cephalopoda in the family Lechritrochoceratidae.

These nautiloids were fast-moving nektobenthic carnivores. They lived in the Silurian Period, from Late Wenlock age (from 428.2 ± 1.5 to 422.9 ± 2.8 mya) to Přídolí Age (from 418.7 ± 1.5 to 416 ± 2.8 mya).

• Peismoceras amicum (Barrande)†
• Peismoceras optatum (Barrande)†
• Peismoceras pulchrum†

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  Fossil of Peismoceras, an extinct cephalopod at Teylers Museum, Haarlem

• Biolib
• Paleobiology Database
• Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database