Metoicoceras

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Metoicoceras
Temporal range: Cenomanian
Metoicoceras geslinianum MNHN.F.R04287 cropped.jpg
Metoicoceras geslinianum lectotype
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Acanthoceratidae
Subfamily: Mammitinae
Genus: Metoicoceras
Hyatt, 1903
Species [1]
  • M. bergquisti
  • M. geslinianum
  • M. swallovi

Metoioceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass which lived during the Cenomanian. [2]

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References

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