Emericiceras
| Emericiceras | |
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| Fossil of Emericiceras emericii from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Ancyloceratoidea |
| Family: | Crioceratitidae |
| Genus: | Emericiceras Sarka, 1954 |
Emericiceras is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea. Emericiceras are considered by some authors a junior synonyms of Crioceratites.
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Slovakia, South Africa and Spain.
References
- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea,--Ancyloceratiaceae; Geological Society of America 1957, reprinted 1990.
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