Argentiniceras
Appearance
Argentiniceras Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Neocomitidae |
Subfamily: | †Neocomitinae |
Genus: | †Argentiniceras Spath, 1924 |
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Argentiniceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. It belongs to the class Cephalopoda. Its fossils were found in Russia, Yemen,[1] India,[2] Mediterranean, Canada[3] and South America.[4]
References
- ^ "The Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 2009-12-27.
- ^ Krishna, J. 1991. Discovery of Lower Berriasian (Lower Cretaceous) ammonoid genus Argentiniceras from Kachchh (India) and its relevance to the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 23:3141–150.
- ^ Salazar C. 2012. The Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary (Tithonian – Hauterivian) in the Andean Basin of Central Chile: Ammonites, bio- and sequence stratigraphy and palaeobiogeography. Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, 388 p.
- ^ Schwarz E., The Neuquén Basin, Argentina: A Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics (Geological Society, 2005)
External links
- Argentiniceras on The Paleobiology Database, information about fossil sites of A. mintaqi and A. longiceps