Asturoceras

Asturoceras is an extinct late Paleozoic ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the Goniatitida, named by Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya in 1969.

Asturoceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Order:
Goniatitida
Suborder:
Goniatitina
Superfamily:
Dimorphocerataceae
Family:
Dimorphoceratidae
Subfamily:
Dimorphoceratinae
Genus:
Asturoceras

Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya, 1969
Type species
Trizonoceras subdivisum Kullmann, 1962
Species
  • A. subdivisum Kullmann, 1962
  • A. romanum Riley, 1985

As for its family, the Dimorphoceratidae, the shell of Asturoceras is completely involute, with a closed umbilicus, and the ventral lobe becomes extremely wide during growth by subdivision. In Asturoceras at maturity the ventral lobe has six bifid branches.

Fossils of this genus were found in Spain[1] and England.[2]

  • Dimorphoceras
  • Trizonoceras

References
  1. "Goniat database - Asturoceras subdivisum". Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  2. "Goniat database - Asturoceras romanum". Retrieved 14 March 2017.


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