Crioceras
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
†Ammonoidea
Order:
†Ammonitida
Superfamily:
†Ancylocerataceae
Family:
†Crioceratitidae
Genus:
†Crioceras

d'Orbigny, 1842
Species
  • †Crioceras elegans Koenen, 1902[2]
  • †Crioceras ramoseptum

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.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ↑ Die ammonitiden des norddeutschen Neocom (Valan ginien, Hauterivien, Barrêmien und Aptien. A von Koenen, 1902
  3. ↑ Lehmann, U. 1981. The ammonites: Their life and their world. London: Cambridge University Press.


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