Zigzagiceras

Zigzagiceras
Temporal range: Bathonian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Family: Perisphinctidae
Subfamily: Zigzagiceratinae
Genus: Zigzagiceras
d'Orbigny, 1846
Species
  • Zigzagiceras zigzag

Zigzagiceras is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the order Ammonoidea, that lived during the upper Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic.[1] They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.[2]

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. "Paleobiology Database - Zigzagiceras". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
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