Trachyceras

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Trachyceras
Temporal range: Carnian [1]
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Trachyceras fossil at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Family: Trachyceratidae
Subfamily: Trachyceratinae
Genus: Trachyceras
Laube 1869

Trachyceras is a genus belonging to the extinct subclass of cephalopods known as ammonites. Specifically it belongs in the order Ceratitida. They are distributed in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, United States.

The family to which Trachyceras belongs, the Trachyceratidae, has more or less involute, highly ornamented shells and ceratitic to ammonitic sutures.

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Notes
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database" . Retrieved 28 May 2014.
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