Eucalycoceras

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Eucalycoceras
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 99.7–94.3 Ma
E. pentagonus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Acanthoceratidae
Subfamily: Acanthoceratinae
Genus: Eucalycoceras
Spath, 1923
Species
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Eucalycoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

Species[edit]

  • E. collignoni Fabre, 1940
  • E. denizoti Fabre, 1940
  • E. gothicum Kossmat, 1895
  • E. pentagonus Jukes-Browne, 1896

Description[edit]

Eucalycoceras are medium-sized ammonites, generally compressed, with flattened flanks and venter with dense tuberculate ribs.

Distribution[edit]

Fossils of this genus have been found in the Cretaceous of Antarctica, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom and United States.

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