Euaspidoceras perarmatum

Euaspidoceras perarmatum
Temporal range: Callovian–Oxfordian[1]
Fossil of Euaspidoceras perarmatum from Calvados, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Perisphinctaceae
Family: Aspidoceratidae
Genus: Euaspidoceras
Species: E. perarmatum
Binomial name
Euaspidoceras perarmatum
J. Sowerby, 1822[2]

Euaspidoceras perarmatum is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod species that lived during the Jurassic.[1]

Fossil of Euaspidoceras perarmatum may be found in the upper Jurassic, Oxfordian stage of France, Germany, Russia and Saudi Arabia, around 154 to 146 million years ago.[3][4]

Description

Euaspidoceras perarmatum has a shell reaching up to 7.5 centimetres (3.0 in) of diameter.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database".
  2. ↑ GBIF
  3. ↑ MNHN
  4. ↑ Mikhail Semenovich Mesezhnikov, Gerd Ernst Gerold Westermann Jurassic Ammonite Zones of the Soviet Union, Edizione 223
  5. ↑ Ammonites


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.