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Skirroceras bayleanum

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Skirroceras bayleanum
Temporal range: Jurassic (Bajocian), 171.6–167.7 Ma
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Fossil of Skirroceras bayleanum from United Kingdom, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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S. bayleanum
Binomial name
Skirroceras bayleanum
(Oppel, 1857)

Skirroceras bayleanum is a Stephanoceratacean (ammonite) species belonging to the family Stephanoceratidae.[2]

These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, in the Bajocian age.[3]

Description

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Skirroceras bayleanum has a shell reaching about 10.8 centimetres (4.3 in) of diameter. [4]

Distribution

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Fossils of Skirroceras bayleanum are found in the Middle Jurassic Bajocian age marine strata of United Kingdom and France.[1]

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