Arctomeekoceras

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Arctomeekoceras
Temporal range: L Triassic (Scythian)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Family: Meekoceratidae
Genus: Arctomeekoceras

Arctomeekoceras is a genus of ammonoids in the order Ceratitida from the Early Triassic, included in the Meekoceratidae; a family characterized by more of less involute, compressed, discoidal forms that are smooth or weakly ornamented and have a ceratitic suture with broad saddles.

Arctomeekoceras lived from about 250 to about 245 m.y.a and has been found in arctic Canada (Nunavut) in the Blind Fiord Formation associated with Neomeekoceras , Olenikites , and Pseudosageceras ; and in far northern Siberia, Russian Federation, associated with Boreomeekoceras, Pseudosageceras, Olenikites, Keyserlingites, Sibirites, Nordophiceras, Olenekoceras, and Subolenekites

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