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Crioceras (cephalopod)

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Crioceras
Temporal range: Hauterivian[1]
Scientific classification
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Ancylocerataceae
Family:
Crioceratitidae
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Crioceras

Crioceras is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the family Crioceratidae of the ammonitid superfamily Ancylocerataceae. Crioceras is considered by some to be a junior synonym of Crioceratites

Crioceras ramoseptum is a heteromorph that comes from the Aptian of Dagestan.[2]

References

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ Lehmann, U. 1981. The ammonites: Their life and their world. London: Cambridge University Press.