Elephantoceras

Elephantoceras is genus of a Middle Permian ammonite belonging to the goniatitid family Pseudohaloritidae. Fossils belonging to this genera were found in China.[1]

Elephantoceras
Temporal range: Wordian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Pseudohaloritidae
Subfamily: Shouchangoceratinae
Genus: Elephantoceras
Zhao & Zheng, 1977
Type species
Elephantoceras spinonodosum
Zhao & Zheng, 1977
Species
  • E. nodosum Zhao & Zheng, 1977
  • E. spinonodosum Zhao & Zheng, 1977

References

  1. "Goniat database". Retrieved 2 January 2017.


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