Crioceras is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the family Crioceratidae of the ammonitid superfamily Ancylocerataceae. Crioceras is considered by some to be a junior synonym of Crioceratites
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Genus: | †Crioceras d'Orbigny, 1842
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Crioceras ramoseptum is a heteromorph that comes from the Aptian of Dagestan.[3]
References
edit- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ Die ammonitiden des norddeutschen Neocom (Valan ginien, Hauterivien, Barrêmien und Aptien. A von Koenen, 1902
- ^ Lehmann, U. 1981. The ammonites: Their life and their world. London: Cambridge University Press.