Aristoceras

Aristoceras
Temporal range: Early Pennsylvanian - Early Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Thalassoceratidae
Subfamily: Thalassoceratinae
Genus: Aristoceras
Species
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Aristoceras is a Late Paleozoic goniatitid genus included in the Goniatitina suborder in which the lobes of the external suture are irregularly serrate.

Aristoceras, named by Ruzencev, 1950, may be a synonym for Euthalassoceras Miller and Furnish, 1940. The family to which it belongs, the Thalassoceratidae is now part of the Thalassoceratoidea, but used to be included in the Dimorphocerataceae with the Dimorphoceratidae.

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