Kosmoceratidae
Kosmoceratidae | |
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Fossil shell of Kosmoceras spinosum from Calvados (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Order: | Ammonitida |
Superfamily: | Stephanoceratoidea |
Family: | Kosmoceratidae Haug, 1887 |
Species [1] | |
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Kosmoceratidae is an extinct ammonite family from the Callovian (Middle Jurassic) to Early Cretaceous.
Kosmoceratidae are probably the most polymorphic groups of Jurassic ammonites. These ammonoids have a more or less tabulate venter, with lateral or ventrolateral tubercles. The aptychus is double valved with a concentrically ribbed surface.[2]
References
- ↑ "Paleobiology Database - Kosmoceratidae". Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part F : America / edited by Raymond C. Moore. -- University of Kansas Press, 1956
- Philippe Courville, Catherine Crônier - Diversity or Disparity in the Jurassic (Upper Callovian) genus Kosmoceras (ammonitina): A Morphometric Approach
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