Araxoceras
Araxoceras Temporal range: Dzhulfian
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Araxoceras latissimum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ceratitida |
Family: | †Araxoceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Araxoceratinae |
Genus: | †Araxoceras Ruzhencev, 1959 |
Type species | |
Araxoceras latissimum | |
Species | |
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Araxoceras is an extinct
ammonites that lived in the Late Permian marine environments of Iran,[1][2] South China[2][3] and Japan.[4]
The various species had distinctive, angular-cornered shells.
References
- S2CID 129876784.
- ^ JSTOR 1302664.
- ^ Zhang, Zong-yan; He, Wei-hong; Zhang, Yang; Yang, Ting-lu; Wu, Shun-bao (2009). "Late Permian-Earliest Triassic Ammonoid Sequences from the Rencunping Section, Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, South China and Their Regional Correlation". Geological Science and Technology Information. 28 (1): 23–30.
- ^ Ehiro, Masayuki (1998). "Permian ammonoid fauna of the Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan". Palaeoworld. 9: 113–122.