Biology:Frenguelliceras
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Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)
| Frenguelliceras Temporal range: Valanginian
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| Genus: | Frenguelliceras Leanza, 1945
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Frenguelliceras is an ammonite genus from the Lower Cretaceous included in the perisphinctoid family Neocomitidae named by Leanza in 1945. The type species, F. magister, is from the Valanginian,(Lower Cretaceous), of Argentina.
Frenguelliceras has an evolute, flat sided shell with coarse, simple or widely splayed ribs dividing from the umbilical edge -inner margin of the outer whorl; venter -outer rim- with a smooth groove, bordered by incipiently tuberculate rib endings.
References
- W.J. Arkell, et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L, Ammonoidea
- Frenguelliceras-Paleodb
Wikidata ☰ Q5502780 entry
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