Involuticeras

Involuticeras
Temporal range: U Jurassic
Scientific classification
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Perisphinctaceae
Family: Perisphinctidae
Genus: Involuticeras
Quenstedt, 1846

Involuticeras: a perisphinctacean ammonite belonging to the Aulacostephanininae from the Upper Jurassic of Europe and possibly Mexico. Shell involute, moderately compressed,venter rounded, ribbed. Similar in general form to Aulacostephanus and Epicephalites


Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L,(1957), Mesozoic Ammonoidea, p. L324.