Kossmaticeras
| Kossmaticeras Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous, 112.6–66.043 Ma | |
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| Fossil shell of Kossmaticeras species from Madagascar, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Family: | Kossmaticeratidae |
| Genus: | Kossmaticeras de Grossouvre 1901 |
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Kossmaticeras is an extinct ammonoid genus belonging to the desmoceratacean family Kossmaticeratidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. [1] They lived during the Late Cretaceous, from upper Turonian to upper Maastrichtian age. [2] The type species of the genus is Ammonites theobaldianus. [1]
Subgenera and species
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) Collignon 1954
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) besairieri Collignon 1954
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) karapadensis Kossmat 1897
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) madrasinus Stoliczka 1865
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) planissimus Collignon 1966
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) de Grossouvre 1901
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) inornatum Collignon 1966
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) jeletzkyi Collignon 1965
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) jonesi Collignon 1965
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense Collignon 1954
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sparsicostatum Kossmat 1897
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum Stolickza 1865
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Collignon 1954
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) africanus van Hoepen 1920
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) elegans Kennedy 1985
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) similis Spath 1921
- Kossmaticeras canadense McLearn 1972
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Chile, India, Madagascar, New Zealand and South Africa.
References
- 1 2 3 4 The Paleobiology Database
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
- Arkell, et al. 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, L374; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L (Ammonoidea); Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press.
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