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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: † Ammonoidea
Ordo: † Ammonitida
Subordo: Ammonitina
Superfamilia: Acanthocerataceae
Familia: Acanthoceratidae
Subfamiliae: Acanthoceratinae
Genus: Eucalycoceras
Name

Eucalycoceras Spath, 1923
References

The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 12/12/08

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

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Biology Encyclopedia

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