Biology:Lewesiceras

Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Lewesiceras Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Lewesiceras mantelli, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Family:	†Pachydiscidae
Genus:	†Lewesiceras Spath, 1939

Lewesiceras is a genus of large ammonites belonging to the order Ammonitida and the family Pachydiscidae.

They lived in the late Cretaceous period, in the Cenomanian and Turonian ages, which occurred 99.6-89.3 million years ago. These shelled ammonoids were nektonic, fast-moving and carnivorous.

Fossils distribution

Cretaceous of Armenia, France , Germany , United States (Texas ), Uzbekistan.

Species

• Lewesiceras mantelli Wright and Wright, 1951
• Lewesiceras peramplum (Mantell, 1822)
• Lewesiceras wiedmanni Wright & Kennedy, 1984

Gallery

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  Lewesiceras peramplum, a pachydiscid ammonite from Upper Turonian of Poland

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  Lewesiceras cornicostatus, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)

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  Lewesiceras sharpei, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)

References

• Biolib
• The Paleobiology Database
• Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopods
• Ammonitida

Wikidata ☰ Q6536145 entry