Crioceras (cephalopod)

For the plant genus, see Crioceras (plant).
Crioceras
Temporal range: Hauterivian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Ancylocerataceae
Family: Crioceratitidae
Genus: Crioceras

Crioceras is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the family Crioceratidae of the ammonitid superfamily Ancylocerataceae. Crioceras is considered by some to be a junior synonym of Crioceratites

Crioceras ramoseptum is a heteromorph that comes from the Aptian of Dagestan.[2]

References

  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. Lehmann, U. 1981. The ammonites: Their life and their world. London: Cambridge University Press.
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