Asturoceras

Asturoceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Dimorphocerataceae
Family: Dimorphoceratidae
Subfamily: Dimorphoceratinae
Genus: Asturoceras
Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya, 1969

Asturoceras is an extinct late Paleozoic ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the Goniatitida, named by Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya in 1969.

As for its family, the Dimorphoceratidae, the shell of Asturoceras is completely involute, with a closed umbilicus, and the ventral lobe becomes extremely wide during growth by subdivision. In Asturoceras at maturity the ventral lobe has six bifid branches.

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