Crioceras

Crioceras
Crioceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Ancylocerataceae
Family: Crioceratitidae
Genus: Crioceras
Species
  • Crioceras ramoseptum

Crioceras is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the family Crioceratidae of the ammonitid superfamily Ancylocerataceae. Crioceras is considered by some to be a junior synomym of Crioceratites

Crioceras ramoseptum is a heteromorph that comes from the Aptian of Dagestan[1].

References

  1. ^ Lehmann, U. 1981. The ammonites: Their life and their world. London: Cambridge University Press.