Aegoceras (Beaniceras)

Aegoceras (Beaniceras) Temporal range: Pliensbachian [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	† Ammonoidea
Order:	† Ammonitida
Family:	† Liparoceratidae
Genus:	† Aegoceras
Subgenus:	† Beaniceras
Species [2]
A. (B.) centaurus(Quenstedt) A. (B.) costatum A. (B.) cottardiense A. (B.) crassum A. (B.) larzacensis A. (B.) luridum A. (B.) rotundum A. (B.) senile

Aegoceras (Beaniceras) is small, coarsely ribbed subgenus of ammonites from the Lower Jurassic with coarsely ribbed rounded whorls. The shell is evolute, early whorls a barrel-shaped cadicone, later become serpenticonic.

Distribution

Jurassic of France, Germany and Spain ^[2]

References

Notes

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database" . Retrieved 2014-05-28.
2. "Paleobiology Database - Aegoceras (Beaniceras)" . Retrieved 17 December 2021.

Bibliography

• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L; Ch. Mesozoic Ammonoidea.. Geological Soc. of America and Uni. Kansas Press, R.C Moore (ed)