Eucalycoceras

Eucalycoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

Eucalycoceras
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 99.7–94.3 Ma
E. pentagonus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Acanthoceratidae
Subfamily: Acanthoceratinae
Genus: Eucalycoceras
Spath, 1923
Species
  • See text

Species

  • E. collignoni Fabre, 1940
  • E. denizoti Fabre, 1940
  • E. gothicum Kossmat, 1895
  • E. pentagonus Jukes-Browne, 1896

Description

Eucalycoceras are medium-sized ammonites, generally compressed, with flattened flanks and venter with dense tuberculate ribs.

Distribution

Fossils of this genus have been found in the Cretaceous of Antarctica, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom and United States.

See also

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