Kossmaticeras

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Kossmaticeras
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Kossmaticeras species from Madagascar
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Kossmaticeratidae
Subfamily: Kossmaticeratinae
Genus: Kossmaticeras
de Grossouvre, 1901
Synonyms
  • Kossmaticeras (Madrasites)Kilian and Reboul, 1909
  • MadrasitesKilian and Reboul, 1909

Kossmaticeras is an extinct ammonoid genus belonging to the desmoceratacean family Kossmaticeratidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. [1] They lived during the Late Cretaceous, from the upper Turonian to the upper Maastrichtian ages. [2] The type species of the genus is K. theobaldianus. [1]

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Subgenera and species

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Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Chile, India, Madagascar, New Zealand and South Africa.

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