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Prionoceras

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Prionoceras
Temporal range: Devonian
Prionoceras divisum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Prionoceratidae
Subfamily: Prionoceratinae
Genus: Prionoceras
Hyatt, 1883

Prionoceras is an extinct genus of ammonites.[1][2] It lived during the Devonian period. Prionoceras divisum is the type specimen from the Fichtel Mountains.[3] Specimens have been found in Algeria, China, Germany, Kazakhstan, Morocco, and Poland.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ Hyatt, Alpheus (1883-04-04). "Genera of fossil cephalopods". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 22: 253–338.
  2. ^ J. J. Sepkoski Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. Vol. 363. p. 502.
  3. ^ Münster, Georg zu (1832). Über die Planuliten und Goniatiten im UebergangsKalk des Fichtelgebirges.
  4. ^ Korn, Dieter; Bockwinkel, Jürgen; Ebbighausen, Volker (May 2014). "Middle Famennian (Late Devonian) ammonoids from the Anti-Atlas of Morocco". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 272 (2): 167–204. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0405. Prionoceras is the most important middle Famennian goniatite genus in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco and the Saoura Valley of Algeria.
  5. ^ "Prionoceras". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
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