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Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)


Involuticeras
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian[2]
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Involuticeras [1]

Quenstedt, 1846

Involuticeras is a perisphinctoid ammonite belonging to the Aulacostephanininae from the Upper Jurassic of Europe and possibly Mexico. The shell is involute, moderately compressed, with a rounded and ribbed venter. The genus is similar in general form to Aulacostephanus and Epicephalites.

References

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L,(1957), Mesozoic Ammonoidea, p. L324.

Wikidata ☰ Q6061422 entry