Biology:Eucalycoceras

Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Eucalycoceras Temporal range: Cretaceous, 99.7–94.3 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
E. pentagonus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Family:	†Acanthoceratidae
Subfamily:	†Acanthoceratinae
Genus:	†Eucalycoceras Spath, 1923
Species
See text

Eucalycoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

Species

• E. collignoni Fabre, 1940
• E. denizoti Fabre, 1940
• E. gothicum Kossmat, 1895
• E. pentagonus Jukes-Browne, 1896

Description

Eucalycoceras are medium-sized ammonites, generally compressed, with flattened flanks and venter with dense tuberculate ribs.

Distribution

Fossils of this genus have been found in the Cretaceous of Antarctica, Brazil , France , the United Kingdom and United States .

See also

• List of ammonite genera

References

• Tarrantoceras Stephenson and Related Ammonoid Geneva from Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) Rocks in Texas and the Western Interior of the United States
• The Paleobiology Database
• J. Sepkoski Online

Wikidata ☰ Q16981800 entry