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Antarcticoceras

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Antarcticoceras
Temporal range: Lower Albian(?)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Family: Ancyloceratidae
Genus: Antarcticoceras
Thomson, 1974

Antarcticoceras is a genus of ammonites in the family Ancyloceratidae. It lived during the Early Cretaceous Period (possibly the lower Albian). Antarcticioceras fossils can be found in the Cretaceous rocks of Antarctica and South America.[1]

References

  1. ^ M.R.A. Thomson, « Ammonite faunas of the Lower Cretaceous of south-eastern Alexander Island », British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports, No. 80 (1974), p.1-44.