Pachydesmoceras

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Pachydesmoceras
Temporal range: Cretaceous
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Pachydesmoceras sp., upper Cretaceous (Turonian), from Madagascar
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Desmoceratidae
Subfamily: Puzosiinae
Genus: Pachydesmoceras
Spath, 1922

Pachydesmoceras is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Desmoceratidae.

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Species of this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivorous shelled cephalopods. They lived during the Cretaceous, from the Albian (112.0-99.6 Mya) to the Santonian (85.8-83.5 Mya) stage.

Distribution

Cretaceous of Antarctica, Cameroon, India, Japan, Nigeria, Romania, United States (California).

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