Austrotrachyceras

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Austrotrachyceras
Temporal range: Carnian [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass:† Ammonoidea
Order:† Ceratitida
Family:† Trachyceratidae
Subfamily:† Trachyceratinae
Genus:† Austrotrachyceras
Krystyn, 1978
Species [2]
  • Austrotrachyceras obesum


Austrotrachyceras is a genus of ammonite cephalopod, belonging to the order Ceratitida.

The family to which Austrotrachyceras belongs, Trachyceratidae involute, highly ornamented shells and ceratitic to ammonitic sutures.

References

  1. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database" . Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ↑ Paleobiology Database - Austrotrachyceras. 2014-05-29.

Bibliography

Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.


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