Apleuroceras
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| Apleuroceras Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ceratitida |
| Family: | †Aplococeratidae |
| Genus: | †Apleuroceras Hyatt, 1900 |
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Apleuroceras is a genus of ceratitid ammonites with an essentially smooth evolute shell with a subquadrade whorl section and a ceratitic suture with two lateral lobes (on either side). Apleuroceras belongs to the Aplococeratidae and has been found in middle Triassic formations of Ladinian age in Hungary and the Alps.[1]
References
[edit]- Arkell et al 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (L158). Geological Society of America and University Kansas Press.
- Paleobiology database Apleuroceras entry accessed 9 December 2011
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