Raymondiceras

Raymondiceras
Temporal range: Famennian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratina
Superfamily: Dimeroceratoidea
Family: Cheiloceratidae
Subfamily: Raymondiceratinae
Genus: Raymondiceras

Raymondiceras is genus of ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the Cheiloceratidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Devonian (Famennian).

Species and distribution

[1]

  • Raymondiceras inceptum Petersen, 1975: ca 367.6 - 366.9 mya of Western Australia
  • Raymondiceras simplex Raymond, 1909: ca 370.0 - 366.8 mya of Montana (USA). This species has been originally assigned to genus Prolobites. This is type species for genus Raymondiceras.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Goniat database". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  2. Korn D, Klug C (2002) Ammoneae Devonicae. Fossilium Catalogus 138. Backhuys, Leiden


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