Prionoceras

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Prionoceras
Temporal range: Devonian
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Prionoceras divisum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Prionoceratidae
Subfamily: Prionoceratinae
Genus: Prionoceras
Hyatt, 1883

Prionoceras is an extinct genus of ammonites. [1] [2] It lived during the Devonian period. Prionoceras divisum is the type specimen from the Fichtel Mountains. [3] Specimens have been found in Algeria, China, Germany, Kazakhstan, Morocco, and Poland. [4] [5]

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References

  1. Hyatt, Alpheus (1883-04-04). "Genera of fossil cephalopods". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 22: 253–338.
  2. J. J. Sepkoski Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. Vol. 363. p. 502.
  3. Münster, Georg zu (1832). Über die Planuliten und Goniatiten im UebergangsKalk des Fichtelgebirges.
  4. Korn, Dieter; Bockwinkel, Jürgen; Ebbighausen, Volker (May 2014). "Middle Famennian (Late Devonian) ammonoids from the Anti-Atlas of Morocco". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 272 (2): 167–204. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0405. Prionoceras is the most important middle Famennian goniatite genus in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco and the Saoura Valley of Algeria.
  5. "Prionoceras". Fossilworks . Retrieved 2020-06-29from the Paleobiology Database.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)