Aegoceras (Beaniceras)

Aegoceras (Beaniceras) Temporal range: Pliensbachian^[1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Order:	Ammonitida
Superfamily:	Eoderocerataceae
Family:	Liparoceratidae
Genus:	Aegoceras Howarth (2013)
Subgenus:	Aegoceras (Beaniceras)
Species ^[2]
A(B). centaurus (Quenstedt) A(B). costatum A(B). cottardiense A(B). crassum A(B). larzacensis A(B). luridum A(B). rotundum A(B). senile

Aegoceras (Beaniceras) is small, coarsely ribbed genus ammonite from the Lower Jurassic with coarsely ribbed rounded whorls. The shell is evolute, early whorls a barrel-shaped cadicone, later become serpenticonic.

Distribution

Jurassic of France, Germany and Spain ^[2]

References

Notes

↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
1 2 "Paleobiology Database - Aegoceras (Beaniceras)". Retrieved 2014-05-28.

Bibliography

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L; Ch. Mesozoic Ammonoidea.. Geological Soc of Americia and U Kansas Press, R.C Moore (ed)

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