Ammonoceratites
| Ammonoceratites Temporal range:
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| Ammonoceratites ezoense | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Lytoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Lytoceratinae |
| Genus: | †Ammonoceratites Bowditch 1822 |
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Ammonoceratites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopod known from the Albian (upper Lower Cretaceous) of British Columbia, Madagascar, New Zealand, and Japan, included in the Lytoceratidae.
The shell of Ammonoceratites is evolute, smooth, moderately expanded; the inner rim (dorsum) only slightly impressed; whorl section subcircular. It is similar to that of Lytoceras which has transverse ribbing and to that of which is gyroconic (whorls not touching) and more strongly expanded.
References[]
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ Paleobiology Database - Ammonoceratites. 2014-05-29.
- Arkell et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L; Geological Society of America and University of Kansas press.
- C. W. Wright, J. H. Calloman, and M. K. Howarth. 1996. Cretaceous Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology revised L(4):1-362
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- Early Cretaceous ammonites
- Prehistoric animals of Madagascar
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