Herrickiceras

Herrickiceras
Temporal range: Middle Turonian 93.5–89.3 Ma
Herrickiceras costatus (Placenticeras costatum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Coilopoceratidae
Genus: Herrickiceras
Cobban & Hook, 1980
Species
  • See text
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Herrickiceras is an ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous which belongs to the Coilopoceratidae, a family in the Acanthoceratoidea. Herrickiceras has an established range in the Middle Turonianof the Upper Cretaceous. Its distribution is widespread, from western North America through Central Africa and the Middle East.

Species include:

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