Hildoceras

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Hildoceras
Temporal range: Toarcian[1]
Hildoceras sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Hildoceratidae
Subfamily: Hildoceratinae
Genus: Hildoceras
Hyatt, 1876
Species
  • See text
Recreation of Hildoceras
Hildoceras species from the Toarcian Bifrons Zone of the Gerecse Mts, Hungary. Collection Eötvös University, Dep. Palaeontology, Budapest.

Hildoceras is a genus of

Saint Hilda
in 1876.

Hildoceras sp morphological and external structural characteristics

Distribution

Jurassic of Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, the United Kingdom and Iran.[2][3]

Species

  • Hildoceras ameuri Rulleau, Elmi & Thevenard, 2001
  • Hildoceras apertum Gabilly, 1976
  • Hildoceras bifrons (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Hildoceras caterinii Merla, 1932
  • Hildoceras crassum Mitzopoulos, 1930
  • Hildoceras lusitanicum Meister, 1913
  • Hildoceras semipolitum Buckman, 1902
  • Hildoceras snoussi Elmi, 1977
  • Hildoceras sublevisoni Fucini, 1919
  • Hildoceras tethysi Géczy, 1967

References

Notes
  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ^ "Paleobiology Database - Hildoceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  3. ^ Seyed-Emami, Kazem, et al. "Toarcian and Aalenian (Jurassic) ammonites from the Shemshak Formation of the Jajarm area (eastern Alborz, Iran)." Paläontologische Zeitschrift 79.3 (2005): 349-369.
Bibliography
  • 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.