Creniceras
| Creniceras Temporal range: Oxfordian[1] | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Oppeliidae |
| Genus: | †Creniceras Munier-Chalmas,1892 |
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Creniceras is a rather small Upper Jurassic[1] ammonite with a shell in the range of about 1.6 cm in diameter,(about 1/2 in). The shell of Creniceras is eccentrically coiled, compressed, and generally smooth, except for a median row of cockscomb serrations on the body chamber and the possibility of blunt ribbing on the sides.
Creniceras, named by Munier-Chalmas in 1892, is included in the oppeliid subfamily Teramelliceratinae, and has been found in Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian age) sediments in Europe and Syria.
References
Arkell et al, 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Geological Society of America and Univ. Kansas Press. p. L282.
- 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
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