Pachydesmoceras
Appearance
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Pachydesmoceras Temporal range: Cretaceous
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Pachydesmoceras sp., upper Cretaceous (Turonian), from Madagascar | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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.
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
[edit]Cretaceous of Antarctica, Cameroon, India, Japan, Nigeria, Romania, United States (California).
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Fossil of Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoide from Japan. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopodes Archived 2016-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
- Paleobiology Database
- Adrian Kin First record of the puzosiine ammonite genus Pachydesmoceras from the Middle and Upper Turonian of Poland
- Tatsuro Matsumoto Note on Pachydesmoceras, a Cretaceous ammonite genus[permanent dead link]