Eucalycoceras
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| Eucalycoceras Temporal range: Cretaceous, | |
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| E. pentagonus | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Acanthoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Acanthoceratinae |
| Genus: | †Eucalycoceras Spath, 1923 |
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Eucalycoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass.
Species
[edit]- E. collignoni Fabre, 1940
- E. denizoti Fabre, 1940
- E. gothicum Kossmat, 1895
- E. pentagonus Jukes-Browne, 1896
Description
[edit]Eucalycoceras are medium-sized ammonites, generally compressed, with flattened flanks and venter with dense tuberculate ribs.
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this genus have been found in the Cretaceous of Antarctica, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom and United States.
See also
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- Tarrantoceras Stephenson and Related Ammonoid Geneva from Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) Rocks in Texas and the Western Interior of the United States
- The Paleobiology Database Archived 2022-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
- J. Sepkoski Online
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