Analytoceras
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| Analytoceras Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Pleuroacanthitidae |
| Genus: | †Analytoceras Hyatt, 1900 |
Analytoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass that lived during the early Jurassic. Analytoceras, named by Alpheus Hyatt in 1900, is a lytoceratid and only member of the pleuroacanthitid subfamily Analytoceratinae, which has the same characters as its genus.
Shell characters: inner whorls constricted, middle with parabolic lines and conspicuous parabolic nodes, outer with sigmoidal flairs; adult body chamber with ventrolateral spines.
References
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- W.J Arkell, B.Kummel, C.W. Wright, Systematic Descriptions, Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (1957) p L193.
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