Lewesiceras

Lewesiceras
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
Lewesiceras mantelli, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Pachydiscidae
Genus: Lewesiceras
Spath, 1939

Lewesiceras is a genus of large ammonites belonging to the order Ammonitida family Pachydiscidae.

They lived in the late Cretaceous period, in the Cenomanian and Turonian ages, which occurred 99.6-89.3 million years ago. These shelled ammonoids were nektonic, fast-moving and carnivores.

Fossils distribution

Cretaceous of Armenia, France, Germany, United States (Texas), Uzbekistan.

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