Aristoceras is a Late Paleozoic goniatitid genus included in the Goniatitina suborder in which the lobes of the external suture are irregularly serrate.
| Aristoceras Temporal range: Early Pennsylvanian - Early Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Goniatitida |
| Family: | †Thalassoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Thalassoceratinae |
| Genus: | †Aristoceras Ruzencev,1950 |
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Aristoceras, named by Ruzencev, 1950, may be a synonym for Euthalassoceras Miller and Furnish, 1940. The family to which it belongs, the Thalassoceratidae is now part of the Thalassoceratoidea, but used to be included in the Dimorphocerataceae with the Dimorphoceratidae.
References
edit- Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
- Aristoceras in GONIAT 6/9/12
- "Aristoceras". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
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