Kosmoceras medea
| Kosmoceras medea Temporal range: Callovian[1] | |
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| Kosmoceras medea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Stephanocerataceae |
| Family: | Kosmoceratidae |
| Genus: | Kosmoceras |
| Binomial name | |
| K. medea Callomon 1955 | |
Kosmoceras medea is a moderately evolute ammonite species from the Callovian (Middle Jurassic), lasting between 163.5 and 166.1 Ma. This species has a shell that reaches a size of about 40-60 mm.
References
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- Ammonites.fr
- Colin S. Harris Engineering geology of the Channel Tunnel
- Kosmoceras in the Paleobiology Database
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