Euaspidoceras perarmatum

Euaspidoceras perarmatum
Temporal range: Callovian–Oxfordian[1]
Fossil of Euaspidoceras perarmatum from Calvados, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Aspidoceratidae
Genus: †Euaspidoceras
Species:
†E. perarmatum
Binomial name
†Euaspidoceras perarmatum
J. Sowerby, 1822[2]

Euaspidoceras perarmatum is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod species that lived during the Jurassic.[1]

Fossils of Euaspidoceras perarmatum may be found in the upper Jurassic, Oxfordian stage of France, Germany, Russia and Saudi Arabia, around 154 to 146 million years ago.[3][4]

Description

Euaspidoceras perarmatum has a shell reaching up to 7.5 centimetres (3.0 in) of diameter.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database".
  2. ^ GBIF
  3. ^ MNHN
  4. ^ Mikhail Semenovich Mesezhnikov, Gerd Ernst Gerold Westermann Jurassic Ammonite Zones of the Soviet Union, Edizione 223
  5. ^ Ammonites


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