Apoderoceras
Temporal range:
Fossil specimen at Field Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Coeloceratidae
Genus: †Apoderoceras
Buckman, 1921
Species[2]
  • †Apoderoceras antiquum Lóczy, 1915
  • †Apoderoceras dunrobinense Spath, 1926
  • †Apoderoceras ferox Buckman, 1925
  • †Apoderoceras sparsinodum Quenstedt, 1849
  • †Apoderoceras subtriangulare Young and Bird, 1822

Apoderoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the ammonite subclass.

Ammonites (Apoderoceras) were predatory mollusks that resembled a squid with a shell. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells. They are more closely related to a living octopus, though the shells resemble that of a nautilus. True ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.[3]

Biostratigraphic significance

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has assigned the First Appearance Datum of genus Apoderoceras and of Bifericeras donovani the defining biological marker for the start of the Pliensbachian Stage of the Jurassic, 190.8 ± 1.0 million years ago.

Distribution

Jurassic of Argentina, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom [4]

References

  1. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ↑ "Apoderoceras". Fossilworks. Retrieved 29 April 2022 from the Paleobiology Database.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. ↑ https://www.fossilera.com/fossils/huge-13-spiny-jurassic-ammonite-apoderoceras-fossil-england
  4. ↑ "Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.


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