Biology:Docidoceras
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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 |
| Family: | †Otoitidae |
| Genus: | †Docidoceras Buckman, 1919[2] |
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Docidoceras is an extinct ammonite genus from the order Ammonitida that lived during the Middle Jurassic. Docidoceras is included in the family Otoitidae which makes up part of the ammonite superfamily Stephanoceratoidea.
Docidoceras has a broad, finely ribbed, evolute shell with a depressed whorl section. The venter, the outer rim, is broadly arched and crossed by the ribs without interruption. The dorsum, on the inner rim of the whorls is broadly impressed.
Distribution
Fossils of Docidoceras have been found in:[3]
- Laberge Group, Yukon, Canada
- Agoudim Formation, Morocco
- Andalusia, Spain
- Inferior Oolite, United Kingdom
- Kialagvik Formation, Alaska, United States
References
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2016-02-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20160225225905/http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- ↑ Dietze, V. (2010). "Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany". Zitteliana 50: 71–88. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716054918/http://rogov.zwz.ru/Dietze%20et%20al%2C2010.pdf.
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Bibliography
- Arkell et al., 1957; Ammonitina in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea; Geological Soc of America and Univ Kansas press.
Wikidata ☰ Q5287174 entry
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