Skirroceras

Skirroceras
Temporal range: Jurassic (Bajocian), 171.6–167.7 Ma
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Fossil of Skirroceras bayleanum from United Kingdom, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ammonitina
Superfamily: Stephanocerataceae
Family: Stephanoceratidae
Genus: Skirroceras
Mascke, 1907

Skirroceras is a Stephanoceratacean (ammonite) genus belonging to the family Stephanoceratidae. These fast-swimming carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, in the Bajocian age.[2]

Selected species

References

  1. ↑ The Paleobiology Database
  2. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
  3. ↑ Skirroceras bayleanum at Bajocien14
  4. ↑ Discover Yale
  5. ↑ Geological Survey Professional Paper, Vol. 1322-1984
  6. ↑ Smitsonian Institution


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