Biology:Creniceras
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Short description: Extinct genus of ammonites
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Oppeliidae |
| Subfamily: | †Streblitinae |
| Genus: | †Creniceras Munier-Chalmas,1892 |
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Creniceras is a rather small Upper Jurassic[1] ammonite with a shell in the range of about 1.6 cm in diameter,(about 1/2 in). The shell of Creniceras is eccentrically coiled, compressed, and generally smooth, except for a median row of cockscomb serrations on the body chamber and the possibility of blunt ribbing on the sides.
Creniceras, named by Munier-Chalmas in 1892, is included in the oppeliid subfamily Teramelliceratinae, and has been found in Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian age) sediments in Europe and Syria.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20080507014300/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
Arkell et al, 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Geological Society of America and Univ. Kansas Press. p. L282.
Wikidata ☰ Q5184155 entry
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