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Kosmoceratidae

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Kosmoceratidae
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
Fossil shell of Kosmoceras spinosum from Calvados (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Stephanoceratoidea
Family: Kosmoceratidae
Haug, 1887
Species[1]

Kosmoceratidae is an extinct ammonite family from the Callovian (Middle Jurassic) to Early Cretaceous.

Kosmoceratidae are probably the most polymorphic groups of Jurassic ammonites. These ammonoids have a more or less tabulate venter, with lateral or ventrolateral tubercles. The aptychus is double valved with a concentrically ribbed surface.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Paleobiology Database - Kosmoceratidae". Retrieved 2017-10-19.
  2. ^ Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part F : America / edited by Raymond C. Moore. -- University of Kansas Press, 1956
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