Biology:Aconeceras

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Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Aconeceras
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
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Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Oppeliidae
Subfamily: Aconeceratinae
Genus: Aconeceras

Aconeceras is an early Cretaceous ammonite included in the oppeliid subfamily Aconeceratidae, characterized by an involute, high-whorled, flat-sided shell that bears a finely serrate keel along the venter. Sutures have narrower and deeper elements than in Protaconeceras. Aconeceras has been found in western Europe, South Africa, and eastern Australia. Its stratigraphic range is from the Upper Barramian to the Lower Albian.

References

Arkell et al., 1957 Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Geol Society of America and Univ Kansas Press R.C Moore (ed) 1957

"†subfamily Aconeceratinae Spath 1923 (ammonite)". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?taxon_no=129239&action=taxonInfo. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2823393 entry