Androgynoceras
Androgynoceras Temporal range:
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Fossil shells of Androgynoceras species from Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Liparoceratidae |
Genus: | †Androgynoceras Hyatt, 1867 |
Species[2] | |
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Androgynoceras is an extinct
ammonite subclass. The Green Ammonite Beds of the Dorset Coast are named after Androgynoceras lataecosta which has chambers filled with green calcite.[3]
Distribution
Jurassic of Austria, France, Germany, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom [2]
References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ a b "Paleobiology Database - Androgynoceras". Retrieved 2014-05-29.
- ^ Davies, G. M. 1964. The Dorset Coast: A Geological Guide. Northampton: John Dickens and co. Ltd.
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