Aegoceras

Aegoceras
Temporal range: Sinemurian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Subclass:†Ammonoidea
Order:†Ammonitida
Family:†Liparoceratidae
Genus:†Aegoceras
Howarth, 2013
Subgenera [2]

Aegoceras is an evolutely wound ammmonite, with wide spaced ribs, from the Early Jurassic (England) [1] included in the Liparoceratidae and superfamily Eoderoceratidae. Related genera are Leparoceras and Beaniceras.

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ↑ "Paleobiology Database - Aegoceras". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
Weblinks
  • Aegoceras
  • Donovan, Callomon and Howarth 1981. Classification of the Jurassic Ammonitina.
Bibliography
  • M. K. Howarth. 2013. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 4: Psiloceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea. Treatise Online 57:1-139


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