Anderssonoceras

Anderssonoceras
Temporal range: U Permian
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Superfamily: Otocerataceae
Family: Anderssonoceratidae
Genus: Anderssonoceras

Anderssonoceras is a small, smooth ammonite with a flared umbilical shoulder, like Prototoceras, assiged to the ceratitid family Anderssonoceratidae as the type, but once included in the Otoceratidae.

Anderssonoceras comes from the Upper Permian of China.

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