Acanthoceratinae

Acanthoceratinae

Acanthoceratinae

Extinct subfamily of molluscs

The Acanthoceratinae comprise a subfamily of ammonoid cephalopods that lived during the Late Cretaceous from the latter early Cenomanian to the late Turonian

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Shells are evolute, tuberculate and ribbed, with subquadrate to squarish whorl section wherein tubercles typically dominate over ribs. Derivation is from the Mantellicertinae in the early Cenomanian. Gave rise through Neocardioceras to the Mammitinae.

Genera

The following genera are included in the Acanthoceratinae according to various sources as indicated.

Distribution

Fossils of species within the Acanthoceratinae have been found in Upper Cretaceous sediments in Angola, Antarctica, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Madagascar, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    The Paleobiology Database
  2. [2]
    Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
  3. [3]
    Ammonites.fr Acanthoceratinae


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