Haploceras
Haploceras Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Haploceratidae |
Genus: | †Haploceras Zittel, 1870 |
Species | |
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Haploceras is a genus of late Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Tithonian) ammonoid cephalopods and the type for the Haploceratidae, similar to Lissoceras but with a broader whorl section and small blunt lappets and a blunt rostrum; some species with feeble ventral folds on body chamber.
Distribution[]
Jurassic deposites in North America, Africa, Europe and the mid east.[2]
References[]
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- ^ "Paleobiology Database - Haploceras". Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- Arkell et al., 1957 Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Geol Society of America and Univ Kansas Press R.C Moore (ed)
Categories:
- Ammonitida genera
- Haploceratoidea
- Jurassic ammonites
- Ammonites of Europe
- Kimmeridgian life
- Tithonian life
- Ammonitina stubs