Aegasteroceras

Aegasteroceras
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Arietitidae
Subfamily: †Asteroceratinae
Genus: †
Spath, 1925

Aegasteroceras is an extinct cephalopod genus from the Lower Jurassic belonging to the arietitid subfamily Asteroceratinae. The shell of Aegasteroceras is evolute with curve forward and meet at a broad low ventral keel.[1] Aegasteroceras, named by Spath, 1925, has been found in the Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) of England.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b W.J. Arkell et al. 1957. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. (L240)


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