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Aegoceras (Beaniceras)

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Aegoceras (Beaniceras)
Temporal range: Pliensbachian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Liparoceratidae
Genus: Aegoceras
Subgenus: Aegoceras (Beaniceras)
Species[2]
  • A. (B.) centaurus (Quenstedt)
  • A. (B.) costatum
  • A. (B.) cottardiense
  • A. (B.) crassum
  • A. (B.) larzacensis
  • A. (B.) luridum
  • A. (B.) rotundum
  • A. (B.) senile

Aegoceras (Beaniceras) is small, coarsely ribbed subgenus ammonite from the Lower Jurassic with coarsely ribbed rounded whorls. The shell is evolute, early whorls a barrel-shaped cadicone, later become serpenticonic.

Distribution

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Jurassic of France, Germany and Spain [2]

References

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Notes
  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ^ a b "Paleobiology Database - Aegoceras (Beaniceras)". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Bibliography
  • Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L; Ch. Mesozoic Ammonoidea.. Geological Soc. of America and Uni. Kansas Press, R.C Moore (ed)