Biology:Bostrychoceras
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Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
| Family: | †Nostoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Bostrychoceras Hyatt, 1900 |
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Bostrychoceras is a genus of heteromorph ammonite from the family Nostoceratidae. Fossils have been found in Late Cretaceous sediments in Europe and North America.
The shell of Bostrychoceras begins as a tightly wound helical spire, like that of Nostoceras, from which hangs a U- or J-shaped body chamber, at least in the adult. The shell is covered with dense, strong, but unflared, ribs that are commonly sinuous and oblique. May nor may not have strong constrictions.
Distribution
Cretaceous of Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Spain and the United States [2]
References
- Notes
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Paleobiology Database - Bostrychoceras". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=14637.
- 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.
- Ammonoid Paleobiology (Topics in Geobiology) by Neil H. Landman, Kazushige Tanabe, and Richard Arnold Davis
Wikidata ☰ Q1061934 entry
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