Kossmaticeras Temporal range: [1]
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Kossmaticeras species from Madagascar | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Family: | † Kossmaticeratidae |
Subfamily: | † Kossmaticeratinae |
Genus: | †
Kossmaticeras de Grossouvre, 1901 |
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Kossmaticeras is an extinct ammonoid genus belonging to the desmoceratacean family Kossmaticeratidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. [1] They lived during the Late Cretaceous, from upper Turonian to upper Maastrichtian age. [2] The type species of the genus is Ammonites theobaldianus. [1]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Chile, India, Madagascar, New Zealand and South Africa.
Kossmaticeras Temporal range: [1]
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Kossmaticeras species from Madagascar | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Family: | † Kossmaticeratidae |
Subfamily: | † Kossmaticeratinae |
Genus: | †
Kossmaticeras de Grossouvre, 1901 |
Synonyms | |
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Kossmaticeras is an extinct ammonoid genus belonging to the desmoceratacean family Kossmaticeratidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. [1] They lived during the Late Cretaceous, from upper Turonian to upper Maastrichtian age. [2] The type species of the genus is Ammonites theobaldianus. [1]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Chile, India, Madagascar, New Zealand and South Africa.