Misplaced Pages

Lewesiceras

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Lewesiceras
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Lewesiceras mantelli, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Pachydiscidae
Genus: Lewesiceras
Spath, 1939

Lewesiceras is a genus of large ammonites belonging to the order Ammonitida and the family Pachydiscidae.

They lived in the late Cretaceous period, in the Cenomanian and Turonian ages, which occurred 99.6-89.3 million years ago. These shelled ammonoids were nektonic, fast-moving and carnivorous.

Fossils distribution

Cretaceous of Armenia, France, Germany, United States (Texas), Uzbekistan.

Species

  • Lewesiceras mantelli Wright and Wright, 1951
  • Lewesiceras peramplum (Mantell, 1822)
  • Lewesiceras wiedmanni Wright & Kennedy, 1984

Gallery

References

Taxon identifiers
Lewesiceras


Stub icon

This Ammonitina-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
Lewesiceras Add topic