Asturoceras

Taxobox
name = Dimorphoceratidae
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Ammonoidea
ordo = Goniatitida
subordo = Goniatitina
superfamilia = Dimorphocerataceae
familia = Dimorphoceratidae
subfamilia = Dimorphoceratinae
genus = "Asturoceras"
genus_authority = Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya 1969
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"Asturoceras" is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. It was formally placed in this genus during the year 1969 by paleontologists Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya. Like all cephalopods, "Asturoceras" was a marine predator. Unlike some Ammonites who were sedentary bottom dwellers, "Asturoceras" swam actively of its own accord. A lifestyle such as this where the organism is able to move actively and lives in the water column is called nektonic.

Related Animals

*Dimorphoceras
*Trizonoceras

External links

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_name=Asturoceras%20romanum Paleobiology Database entry on Asturoceras]