| Loxoceras Temporal range: Early Carboniferous | |
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| L.breynii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | † Orthocerida |
| Genus: | † Loxoceras M'Coy, 1844 |
Loxoceras is a genus of orthocerids of uncertain affinity, the shell of which is a smooth orthocone with the siphuncle between the center and probably the venter. Type species: Orthocera breyni Fleming 1928. May be equivalent to Breynioceras Foerse 1939. Loxoceras has been found in Lower Carboniferous marine strata in Europe
