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Eleniceras

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Eleniceras
Temporal range: Hauterivian Hauterivian
Eleniceras stevrecensis sp. nov., Lower Hauterivian, Stevrek, (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Neocomitidae
Genus: Eleniceras
Breskovski, 1967
Species[1]

Eleniceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass.[2]

Description

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The genus was named after the Bulgarian town of Elena. The holotype is Eleniceras stevrecensis. There are several described species of Eleniceras, including E. nikolovi, E. stevrecensis, E. tchechitevi, E. transsylvanicum.[3] [4]

Distribution

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This animal lived 140–129 million years ago during the Hauterivian in Europe and Tunisia.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Eleniceras". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  2. ^ Breskovski, St. (1967); "Eleniceras - genre nouveau d'ammonites hauterivien" Bull of the Geological Institute, Ser. Paleontology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences XVI: 47-52.
  3. ^ Vašíček, Zdeněk (2002); "Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea in the Podbranč quarry (Pieniny Klippen Belt, Slovakia)" Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, Vol. 77, No. 3, 192
  4. ^ Wright, C. W. with Callomon, J.H. and Howarth, M.K. (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised , Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et al. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, at 61, 66.


Eleniceras tschechitevi sp. nov., Lower Hauterivian, Stevrek, Cr1 470 (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology
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