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Euaspidoceras perarmatum

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Euaspidoceras perarmatum
Temporal range: Callovian–Oxfordian[1]
Fossil of Euaspidoceras perarmatum from Calvados, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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E. perarmatum
Binomial name
Euaspidoceras perarmatum
J. Sowerby, 1822[2]

Euaspidoceras perarmatum is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod species that lived during the Jurassic.[1]

Fossil of Euaspidoceras perarmatum may be found in the upper Jurassic, Oxfordian stage of France, Germany, Russia and Saudi Arabia, around 154 to 146 million years ago.[3][4]

Description

Euaspidoceras perarmatum has a shell reaching up to 7.5 centimetres (3.0 in) of diameter.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ GBIF
  3. ^ MNHN
  4. ^ Mikhail Semenovich Mesezhnikov, Gerd Ernst Gerold Westermann Jurassic Ammonite Zones of the Soviet Union, Edizione 223
  5. ^ Ammonites