Skirroceras
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Fossil of Skirroceras bayleanum from United Kingdom, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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Class: | Cephalopoda
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Superfamily: | Stephanocerataceae
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Genus: | Skirroceras Mascke, 1907
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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[]
- Skirroceras bayleanum (Oppel, 1857) [3]
- Skirroceras macrum (von Quenstedt) [4]
- Buckman [5][6]
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Categories:
- Jurassic ammonites
- Jurassic animals of Africa
- Jurassic animals of Europe
- Ammonitida genera
- Stephanoceratoidea
- Ammonitina stubs