Argentiniceras
| Argentiniceras Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Berriasian, 145.5–140.2 Ma | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Superfamily: | Endemoceratoidea |
| Family: | Neocomitidae |
| Subfamily: | Neocomitinae |
| Genus: | Argentiniceras Spath, 1924 |
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Argentiniceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. It belongs to the class Cephalopoda. Its fossils was found in Russia, Yemen,[1] India,[2] Mediterranean, Canada[3] and South America.[4]
References
- ↑ "The Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 2009-12-27.
- ↑ Krishna, J. 1991. Discovery of Lower Berriasian (Lower Cretaceous) ammonoid genus Argentiniceras from Kachchh (India) and its relevance to the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 23:3141–150.
- ↑ Salazar C. 2012. The Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary (Tithonian – Hauterivian) in the Andean Basin of Central Chile: Ammonites, bio- and sequence stratigraphy and palaeobiogeography. Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, 388 p.
- ↑ Schwarz E., The Neuquén Basin, Argentina: A Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics (Geological Society, 2005)
External links
- Argentiniceras on the The Paleobiology Database, information about fossil sites of A. mintaqi and A. longiceps
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