Kranaosphinctes

Kranaosphinctes
Temporal range: Upper Jurassic
Kranaosphinctes species from Madagascar, Oxfordian stage
Scientific classification
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Perisphinctoidea
Family: Perisphinctidae
Genus: Kranaosphinctes
Buckman, 1921

Kranaosphinctes is an extinct genus of ammonites belonging to the Perisphinctidae family. [1] [2]

Some authors consider Kranaosphinctes a subgenus of the genus Perisphinctes. [3]

Fossil record

Fossils of Kranaosphinctes are found in marine strata of the Upper Jurassic (age range: from 161.2 to 155.7 million years ago.). Fossils are known from some localities of Europe, Argentina, India and Madagascar. [3]

References

  1. Sepkoski, J.J. Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Sepkoski's Online Genus Database Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1–560. Ammonite
  2. GBIF
  3. 1 2 Paleobiology Database
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