Tropaeum

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Tropaeum
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Tropaeum imperator.JPG
Tropaeum imperator
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Family: Ancyloceratidae
Genus: Tropaeum
Sowerby, 1837
Species
  • T. imperator
  • T. undatum
  • T. bowerbanki
  • T. rasgradensis
  • T. australis
  • T. loegteri

Tropaeum is an extinct genus of ammonites found throughout the oceans of the world during the Early Cretaceous. As with many other members of the family Ancyloceratidae, there was a trend among species within this genus to uncoil somewhat, in a very similar manner to the genus Lytoceras . The largest species, T. imperator of Australia, had a shell a little over one meter in diameter.

The name "Tropaeum" was applied by paleontologist James De Carle Sowerby, in 1837.

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