Idoceras
| Idoceras Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Perisphinctaceae |
| Family: | Perisphinctidae |
| Genus: | Idoceras Burckhardt, 1906 |
Idoceras is a genus of perisphictacean ammonite, belonging to the Perisphinctidae subfamily Idoceratinae. The genus is known from the Upper Jurassic, with a widespread distribution. Shells of Idoceras are evolute, with a wide umbilicus; ribbing strong, bifurcate high on flanks. Suture simpler than in the similar Ataxioceras.
References
- Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. p. L323.
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